King Arthur Flour has to be one of the coolest local companies near us. Not only do they have the best tasting flour around, their headquarters in Norwich, VT (about 40 mins from us) is an amazing factory store, cafe and bakery, and cooking education center. When I looked online, I discovered that they had lots of classes for kids and families, so I signed Aiden and I up for an afternoon pasta-making class. Actually we made a whole meal: hand-made fettuccini with a goat cheese and fresh tomato sauce, salad, and zaletti (Venetian lemon cornmeal cookies) for dessert.
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| Aiden with our ball of pasta dough- time to let it rest |
We had a great time. Aiden loved the cooking classroom, and I got to see a little of how he probably is in his own classroom at Newport Montessori- raising his hand to ask questions about different ingredients and offering to help whenever a volunteer was needed for demonstration. Aiden and I traded turns on being "head chef" for different menu items, and together we chopped, mixed, kneeded, and rolled out our dinner. Our favorite part (no surprise) was rolling out the pasta sheets, and then running the sheets through the cutter head to make ribbons of fresh pasta. When the class was over we zoomed it all home to Andy and Haley, who had salted water boiling to cook our pasta. Dinner was delicious, and I am sure we'll be back for another class soon!
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| Rolling out the pasta |
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| Before we cut them into noodles |
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| Slicing our Zaletti cookies |
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