Pasta, Pretty Please: A Vibrant Approach to Handmade Noodles

Meine Tochter liebt das Buch. Sie macht all ihre Pasta selbst

I found the author on Instagram and was thrilled she had a book! Recipes are easy to follow and delicious. I made farfalle, my daughter made garganelli and rigatoni. We then had pink tagliatelle for dinner. I am waiting for blue pea flowers to arrive so we can make rainbow pasta. I know this book will be well used in years to come!

What a gorgeous book. My first thought was, do I really need another cookbook?! I'm so glad I did purchase. Not only is this book stunning, the recipes are well laid out with great pics and practical. I'm not sure I'd go as far as making happy faces on a Ravioli, but everything else, I would definitely try. I love that most of the ingredients are all natural. There's the odd 1-2 natural colour additives you can buy online, but that's basically it. Everything else can be found around my kitchen and what most of us already have on hand.

I took this book with me to my hometown for Thanksgiving and everyone loved it so much.... I have to get another copy. The photographs are well done and really help you understand how to shape the pasta. The author clearly explains the steps to make great dough and then shape it. We were easily able to make the milk, tomato, and leafy green (we used frozen spinach) dough. My daughters skipped to the advanced techniques of "painting pasta with pasta" and we ended up with some interesting, yet tasty designs. I have been making pasta off and on for a few years now and I was amazed at how helpful the book was. I learned many techniques that have improved my pasta making (and explain some of my previous failures) and because of the rainbow colors - everyone is so excited to participate, clean up, and eat pasta!

Linda Miller Nicholson is one of the greatest trailblazers to have graced this little blue dot of ours. She is easy to love, difficult to forget and impossible to ignore. I could be wrong but I think what makes her art so intriguing is her compassion and humility. Her strength, I think lies in the fact that she knows what she can do and soars towards it, tired wings or not. She is special, her book is special and because of her, the dull grey world is a tad bit brighter. She is not the crazy pasta lady, she is the warming winter sun that seeps into your skin and warms your soul with love. P.S. hey Amazon, can I give her six stars out of five? Pretty please?