This is how we do it!

Here is pictorial tutorial of the making of the cavatelli.

 

A cavatellitorial, if you will.



Take left over mashed potatoes, and add eggs.  How many?  Some.
 

Add some salt and enough flour to make it dough.  How much?  Some.  ("Some" is how all my Italian Grandmother's recipes go.)

Roll it into a snake...

Lots of snakes.
 

EVERYONE makes the snakes!  It takes a large family to make this pasta.  You want to eat?  You make-a the snake!





Cut the snakes on a diagonal, and with your Old-World-Italy- family-technique, form them.

 



Then they dry on the countertop.  Look at that husband of mine, he's becoming more and more Italian as the years go by...

 

Drop them into a pot of boiling water.  When they float, they are done.

 

Make a sauce out of tomatoes you grew in the tomato jungle, and add some sausage.

 

MANGI!


It was a great dinner, and a good time.  Although, we all said numerous times:

"WHERE ARE THE ZLOTNICKS?!  THEY SHOULD BE HERE MAKING A SNAKE!"