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We just love these pretty sugar lumps painted with pink and red hearts. The perfect finishing touch for a special table. Now available in new and smaller packaging. Each box contains 30 cubes. 12.00 Pounds.

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This multitasking machine from Cuisinart sautés, cooks and blends your favorite homemade soups. It’s also a high-performance blender – crushing ice or whipping up cocktails and smoothies. $199.99 at www.WilliamSonoma.Com

• Versatile machine makes hot soup, whips up smoothies, crushes ice and does much more.
• For soups, simply add pre-cut ingredients and the machine sautes, blends and keeps the soup warm until serving.
• Razor-sharp blades quickly chop or mince foods.
• Push-button digital controls make it easy to set cooking time and temperature.
• The machine has three temperature settings – low, medium and high bringing soup from a gentle simmer to a boil.
• Four speeds – plus stir and pulse functions – blend ingredients to desired consistency.
• Thermal shock-resistant glass container with plastic base.
• Cleaning brush included.

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The Wife’s Homemade Pasta

Ingredients:

5 1/4 Cups of Flour

8 Eggs

1 Teaspoon of Salt

Directions:

1. Pour flour onto counter, add 1 teaspoon of salt and make a hole in the middle to crack 8 eggs into.

2. Whisk Eggs slowly with a fork, slowly adding flour as you mix.

3. Knead dough for 10 minutes until elastic.

4. Separate dough into 2, wrap each in Saran wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

5. Once out of the fridge cut each dough ball into 3rds and roll through pasta press machine until desired thickness. We suggest setting 7. – Special thanks to Josh Rosenstein for teaching us this recipe!

Flour with Salt

Adding 8 eggs into Flour mixture.

Kneading Dough

Split into two, Wrap in Saran Wrap and Refrigerate.

Pasta Press Machine

Pasta. Plain. But Good.

INGREDIENTS:
Pasta.
And salt.
And water.
And Fire.

DIRECTIONS:
Place the pasta in the water and the salt in the water and the water in the pot and the pot on the fire.
In the pot? The fire in the pot?
No. The water in the pot. The pot on the fire.
The pasta in the water?
Yes, in the water.
And the salt in the fire?
No. The salt in the water.
And the water on the fire?
No. The water in the pot and the pot on the fire. Not the water on the fire. For then the fire will die and dying be dead.
Nor will the water boil and the pasta will drain dry and not cooked and hard to the teeth.

The salt falls nor does it cease to fall.
The water boils. So be it.
Cease from placing your hand in the boiling water. Place your hand in the boiling water and it will cause you pain.
Much pain?
Very much pain.

In the pot the bubbles bubble up and bubble some more. The bubbles are bubbly. Never more bubbly bubbles bubbling bubbliest. And having bubbled the bubbles still bubbly.
Or bubblier?
Or bubblier.
Across the kitchen a board intended for chopping. Here. Take it. Chop.
What will I chop? There are no ingredients to chop.
Just chop. Don’t cease from chopping. To chop is to become a man.

After 10 minutes. The pasta stiff and dry and upright no more. The pasta lank and wet and soft. In the eternal damp of water.
Pour water free like some ancient anointing. The pasta left alone in the pot. Alone and naked.
The salt? Where’s the salt?
The salt is gone. Lost to the water and gone forever.
I grieve for the salt.
It is the salt for which I grieve.

Tip the pasta out.
The pasta?
Yes. Tip it out. Onto.
A plate?
Yes. And stop.
Finishing your sentences?
Yes.
Why?
Because it’s so.
Irritating?

Nothing in your memory anywhere of anything so good. Now the pasta is eaten. Disappeared. The pasta disappeared as everything disappeared. As the comma disappears and the semicolon disappears and the inverted comma disappears and the apostrophe disappears and the adjectives and the pronouns all disappear.
Leaving just full stops and And.
And And?
And And.
And And.

-Vanity Fair.Com

Images and Ideas: Sweet Designs by Amy Atlas