blissful
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It used to be that I could get pasta for $.50 a lb, when I'd find it on sale (3 years ago)......now it's $1.00 a lb on sale.(yesterday)
Flour on sale is $1.39 for 5 lbs.
Seems to me it is more work but less money to make your own dumplings and noodles. (For instance, stuffed chinese dumplings yesterday were made fairly easily--and it's really pasta with stuffing and I used 2 cups of flour and it fed 3 people...well the teenager counts for 2, so 4 people.)
When I make chicken soup (in a huge nesco roaster) I put in spaetzle, fresh made, and then freeze it in serving size containers, and it turns out nice.
What's your take on pastas and dumplings and what do you do?
What would be a good project to make some on the week-ends to enjoy during the week--freeze them, dehydrate them...how would you do it?
TIA ~Bliss
Flour on sale is $1.39 for 5 lbs.
Seems to me it is more work but less money to make your own dumplings and noodles. (For instance, stuffed chinese dumplings yesterday were made fairly easily--and it's really pasta with stuffing and I used 2 cups of flour and it fed 3 people...well the teenager counts for 2, so 4 people.)
When I make chicken soup (in a huge nesco roaster) I put in spaetzle, fresh made, and then freeze it in serving size containers, and it turns out nice.
What's your take on pastas and dumplings and what do you do?
What would be a good project to make some on the week-ends to enjoy during the week--freeze them, dehydrate them...how would you do it?
TIA ~Bliss