Want to learn to make your own delicious homemade pasta with no special tools and just a few simple ingredients?
Learn several fun and simple techniques for handmade pasta you can make at home!
Join Piedmont Picnic Project at Raleigh City Farm with guest instructor Chef Ryan McGuire for this two-hour hands-on pasta workshop -- great for beginners looking to try to shape their first noodle or experienced cooks looking to learn new methods! As we get our hands dirty on this farm in the city, we'll also learn more about the history of how Raleighites have been preparing their own food for generations.
Skills you'll learn:
Everything you need to know to make your own handmade pasta at home.
How to make several variations of pasta dough by hand.
How to roll different pasta shapes using your hands, common kitchen utensils, or fun special pasta tools.
How to cook your fresh pasta into a tasty meal.
What you'll take away:
Samples of freshly made pasta in your belly!
New knowledge and hands-on skills to make your own pasta at home.
Recipe handouts for pasta recipes.
A box of your very own fresh, handmade pasta that you mixed and rolled yourself in class!
About the instructors:
We believe you'll enjoy your food more if you know the story behind it! Here's how we'll each help you do that.
Ryan McGuire is the executive chef of the chief executive! That's right, he is the head chef at the North Carolina governor's mansion. He is also the founder of the Common Roots Project in which he brings people and communities together around food and music to break down barriers that divide us and build common roots that bind us. He will share his journey to rediscover his Sicilian family heritage through food - including pasta making!
Elizabeth Weichel of Piedmont Picnic has a background in public history and specializes in local history. She'll help us to remember the ways that everything old is new again - growing, preserving, and fermenting your own food might be trendy now, but it's nothing new! Learn how it all fits into the larger story of our local history.
Amanda Matson of Piedmont Picnic has carved out her own little urban homestead right here in Raleigh - growing, foraging, and preserving her own food all on a small lot in the city and working toward total fruit and veggie independence. She'll teach you all of the hands-on skills you need to have your own little homestead - whether it's the size of a single container garden or an entire yard!
Note: This workshop takes place outdoors at the beautiful Raleigh City Farm - a working farm right in downtown Raleigh! Please dress comfortably for the weather and ready to get your hands dirty.