Making pasta with children

This was the second time I made pasta with little ones. The first time they weren't very into it but this time they loved it and enthusiastically helped with every step. Here's some pictures

Mitch loves eggs and tries so hard to crack them like I do. He is sure that if he pulls hard enough the two sides will come appart. I love his 'sound effects' (errr eggy, in the cup, errrrrrrrr:)

 Cameron mixed the egg into the flour. We should have used a bigger bowl but I couldn't resist using this cute Pyrex bowl I got at a market last weekend ($2, yay!)

He loves kneading the dough

And winding, winding winding the dough through different thicknesses. (Why not multi task and eat an apple 'borrowed' from Karen's bench at the same time? that's why I always buy extra apples:)

We let the pasta stiffen before making into fettichini strips. At this point the boys started asking, 'is it ready now? Can I eat it?' approx every minute or so. I let them taste it and apparently it was delicious. Hmm...

 Ah, finally time to cut it into strips!

 We then cooked it, added sauce, ignored the huge mess of flour on the table, blew steam away.
 (cute wooden cutlery and also our wooden stirring spoon in pic above was made by our friend Sean of gacarver etsy shop)

And finally it was time to eat, Yum!