Homemade Fettuccine Alfredo

A few weeks ago, I purchased a Remy Olivier pasta machine for $30 which manually rolls out pasta dough and cuts it into fettuccine or spaghetti. This machine makes it so easy to make pasta at home, which I had never done before. My sister's and my first attempt of fresh pasta with this machine was butternut squash filled ravioli in a garlic cream sauce, which my sister blogged about at Megan's Blog. We purchased a circular ravioli stamp which both cuts and seals the edges of the ravioli. The effort to make these was long, but well worth it!



For our second attempt at making homemade pasta, we chose to invite a few friends over to make Fettuccine Alfredo. The recipe we used for the noodles was the same we had used for our ravioli, found at the Italian Food Forever website. For our Alfredo sauce, we simply poured whipping cream over the cooked pasta, and added grated fresh garlic, lots of parmesan, and butter to melt in, and let sit until thickened. This recipe was based on the garlic cream sauce we made for our ravioli, although I can't remember the website we got it from.


For us newbies, it took us approximately two and a half hours in total to make the pasta dough, cut it, and cook it, which isn't so bad when you have a weekend to do it on and friends to enjoy it with!