Food Minia

Last Christmas I received a pasta attachment for my KitchenAid.  I've been making all sorts of pasta egg pasta, beet pasta, spinach pasta, etc.  I wanted to make a pasta that could somehow incorporate Alaska, therefore tundra blueberry pasta. To get this vibrant purple color you have to use tundra blueberries also called bilberries similar to huckleberries.  Blueberries from the grocery store just won't cut it. Ingredients: 1 cup semolina flour 1 cup all purpose flour 2 tbs. olive oil 1/2 cup tundra blueberry puree 2 tbs. sugar 1 tbs. lemon juice dash cinnamon Directions: Mix all ingredients in a your Kitchen aid mixer and finish off with your dough hook or used a food processor to blend all ingredients so that it forms into a solid ball.   Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface. Roll out dough or wind through your pasta machine. Cut into strips or wind through your pasta machine. Cook the pasta in boiling water until al dente…it will only take 3-4 m...

This is Lynn here.  I just have to tell everyone that I have the BEST sister ever!  Why, might you ask?  Because she and her husband got me my very own Kitchenaid Mixer for Christmas. I have been falling in love with my mixer and using it non-stop.  Seriously, I've considered knitting it a sweater because I adore it so much.  With my new mixer I have tried out various roll recipes and I just have to share the one that I think is the absolute BEST.  Not only is the recipe easy, but they come out so soft and buttery and they just melt in your mouth. Ingredients: 2 c warm water 2/3 c  nonfat dry milk powder 2 Tbsp dry yeast 1/4 c sugar 2 tsp salt 1/2 c butter 1 egg 4 1/2- 5 c all purpose flour Directions: In a Kitchenaid mixing bowl, stir in warm water and nonfat dry milk powder until it dissolves. Add yeast, then sugar, salt, butter, egg, and 2 cups of flour. Mix on low speed until ingredients are wet, then 2 minutes at medium speed. Add 2 more cups of f...