Whoa. I am a genius.I just want that to soak in a minute. I mean, tonight, when I made a double batch of Naan dough (we've been baking and eating whole grain naan instead of buying bread at the store) I came up with a brilliant solution to the problem of having to roll out all the pieces of dough.
Before, we'd cut the dough up into sections after the second rise, and then we'd roll it out with a rolling pin. This yielded satisfactory results, but it was a tedious project. So tonight, standing at the sink, thinking about the task at hand, I hollered out to Jim, "Hey! Do we have a pasta maker?" Because if it is one thing you should know about my James, it is that he is a foodie. He is a foodie, and
he is a gadget man. He's like the MacGyver of the kitchen. And if there's ever anything you can think of that you might need to use to make something that has something to do with food, chances are we have one, still in the original box, nicely stowed away, in our basement pantry.Ergo, when James disappeared into the depths of the basement, he (of course) returned victorious with a (well packed, pristine, chromed out) pasta maker.
He set it up on the bartop for me, and the process is now infinitely easier. It took half the time to make twice as many pieces of bread as usual. Measuring the balls of dough into 2 inch balls, creating an oblong shape and sending it through
the pasta roller was a perfect solution, and one that even the neighbor child and two of our own children enjoyed. (It is pretty fun to watch it come sliding through like Flat Stanley.)So now we have a whole lotta naan. And we'll be freezing some of it. And guess what we'll be using to store and freeze it? Mmm hmmm... The Foodsaver. But the things one can do with a Foodsaver is an entirely different post.
