Homemade Pasta with Alfredo Sauce

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Step 5:

Work your pasta in whatever your preferred manner is.

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Step 6:

Roll out in your pasta machine.

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Step 7:

I used my pasta machine and aimed for 1/8 inch square noodles.

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Step 8:

Hang the finished pasta to dry. This batch made about 8 big servings.

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Step 9:

****ermilk-Leek Alfredo Sauce

Alfredo sauce is a wonderfully unhealthy treat, thick and creamy. This version is significantly healthier thanks to replacing much of the evil fatty dairy with tangy ****ermilk. ****er and ****ermilk play very well together here, despite not actually being separated at birth like the originals were; ****er adds richness, depth, and fat as a foil to the ****ermilk's tartness. The sweet (but not too sweet) leeks and complex parmesan round out this sauce, preventing it from being offensively sour or one-dimensional.

4 cups ****ermilk
6 tablespoons ****er
1/3 cup flour
3/4 cup freshly-grated parmesan
6 medium leeks

The red bell pepper and carrots are actually for the my meat course's garnish. I was a bit confused when taking this picture. Still, they're pretty and add some much-needed color to the photo.