Pasta has proved to be a major stumbling block in a plastic free life. Gone are the days of a quick meal after a long day at work throwing some pasta together with a sauce of some kind. Now the only pasta readily available from local shops is lasagna sheets. So yesterday it was made from the raw ingredients, which in itself isn’t complicated; the hard bit is drying ready-made pasta for storing for a quick meal in the future. We’re all for making from scratch but pasta is one of those things that is probably so much easier made in bulk, not laid out to dry around a small kitchen. If only we could find plastic free packaged pasta!
Going Plastic Free 
Thanks for sharing – plastic packaged pasta frustrates me too. Having just read your post I looked up how to make pasta having never made it before – the recipe at http://www.food.com/how-to/make-homemade-pasta-42 says to “wrap the dough loosely with plastic and let it rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.” It seems in making it we can’t avoid plastic either (although we can reuse the plastic)!? I will give this a try at some point 🙂
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I didn’t let the dough rest for 30 mins just got on with it! I used the simple egg free version which uses US measures but is simple enough.
Mix 3 cups plain flour with 1 cup warm water and a glug or two of olive oil (or in our case rape seed oil refilled at a local farm shop). If it’s a bit runny add some more flour. This is then rolled a few times through a pasta machine then allowed to dry for a little while before dusting with more flour and putting through the cutter fitting on the machine. Then dried for ages (or used immediately)!
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