Amayzine pasta party

In my house, it's pasta pasta pasta that's on the menu. My daughters wish for spaghetti à la vongole at least once a week and then hop through to pasta carbonara to spaghetti bolognese. If you want to score, in short, you flaunt a beautiful pasta. Pasta is always good, quick, easy, and also quite handsome. A pasta plate is just incredibly photogenic. Still, I want to bring out the ultimate Italian in me and want to make pasta myself. However, the idea of such a dough machine that you have to turn and where all the dough strands hang through your kitchen to dry is too labor-intensive for me. As there is a solution for every problem, Philips has thought of something for that. A pasta machine.

Now you probably think what I thought: that some things can't be easy. That it still takes a lot of time. And it's a hassle. But that's not true. It really can. To prove that, Philips asked us to organize a pasta party in our Amayzine kitchen. With readers. That we would cook together and that they would all receive a pasta machine as a gift to continue the trend at home.

You understand that the mailbox overflowed. We could choose three people to come with a friend. As always when we do something with you, I fell in love with our readers again. They felt like friends. Stories about heartbreak, quitting smoking, the best Netflix series, and have you read ‘The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime’ yet? That's how it went, while we ate the Italian appetizers from Viviamo and tasted her limonsecco cocktail. It is indeed what you think it is: it is the drink of now (move over gin tonic, here comes the limonsecco) and it is indeed just as delicious as you think it is.

You understand that the mailbox overflowed.

Meanwhile, Martin, the Philips chef, was already in the kitchen. He had already baked a little apple pie in the Airfryer. He had also made the dough with the pasta machine. In no time. Now it was our turn. We rolled up our sleeves. Did we want to put a bowl of flour in the dough bin? And then a bowl of water. Start it up, wait ten minutes, and the pasta came out. You can choose between different attachments: spaghetti, fettuccine, lasagna, and penne.

You can customize the pasta to your taste or desire. With some squid ink, you can color it dark, with some carrot juice orange. You can also add an egg or some peppercorns. Furthermore, you can vary with the types of flour. If you are gluten intolerant, for example, you take gluten-free flour, but you can also use spelt flour or buckwheat flour. Anything goes. You let the pasta dry for a moment and then cook it in two to three minutes.

Another idea is to cook the pasta in the sauce itself, then the sauce is absorbed even better by the pasta. The lasagna does need to go in the oven a bit longer. Or in the Airfryer, because Martin really does everything with the Airfryer. He puts three croissants and two rolls in on Sunday morning and two eggs. Ten minutes at 120 degrees and you have the perfect soft-boiled egg.

But anyway, I digress. Martin first made a clear broth with a tortellini filled with truffle tapenade. Then we got fettuccine in a light creamy wine sauce with shrimp. Because a pasta party calls for pasta, we then got a lasagna that he had made with salmon and béchamel sauce. Was there still room for the traditional lasagna? Well, go ahead. For dessert, he conjured up cannoli (whose dough was also made from the pasta machine and baked in the Airfryer) filled with mascarpone and passion fruit.

And that we could find all his recipes in the included booklet. We went home satisfied. We could do this too. Cooking with the Philips pasta machine is a piece of cake. Which you then prepare in the Airfryer, of course. You understand that.