The Pleasure of Pasta

Making pasta can be one of the most pleasurable activities.  Its kind of cathartic in a lot of ways.  The whole process from making the dough, massaging it, then rolling it and creating your pasta style to the finishing touches of the sauce.  Its even better when prepared with someone else and a lot of love.  

Here we have two different pastas.  The first made with one of my beautiful nieces, has just a super simple marinara sauce with Italian sausage.  The second; basil infused fettucini with semi sun dried tomatoes and chirozo.  

Both perfect and simple.  Enjoy with a lovely red wine and crusty Italian bread and shavings of Parmesan.