Wow, this was by far my best attempt at making homemade pasta! I used fresh spinach (since that's what I had) and made sure to process it until the spinach was down to itty bitty pieces. It took some doing to get all the flour incorporated into the dough and I ended up using a little extra flour as the dough was a bit sticky. I found that trying to do the jelly roll thing and then cut the pasta just wasn't going to work, so I tried using my kitchen scissors and that worked great. After I cut each noodle, I rolled it back out again to make it a lot thinner than I could get a sheet of dough. My noodles came out about an inch wide and about 3-5 inches long. They only took about 5 minutes to cook (the 15-20 minutes seemed awful long to me for fresh pasta unless it was really, really thick and I was trying to get mine fairly thin). This recipe would make plenty to feed four hungry adults. I only cooked about half of the pasta (as it looked like a lot) to feed myself, my husband, my 3 year old, and 20 month old. I made an easy alfredo recipe from this site and added some shrimp to top it all off. Very, very yummy! It was rather time consuming to get the noodles cut up the way I wanted them (I think I'm going to get a pasta maker machine at some point to make this easier) but it was worth it! The noodles were great and didn't taste a ton like spinach (which was good for the kids) and I'll definitely make this again!
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