Happy Easter!

I hope you all had a great Easter Sunday. I did. So much so that I am not up to writing much, but I will tomorrow. Lots to write about. Little time in which to do it.

Tomorrow marks the beginning of a new project for me: it will start informally, more as a test of a concept, but hopefully it will start the Erik Keilholtz Cooking Show. No, that will not be the name. For one thing, I have a co-conspirator in maters culinary, and second, it would be a horrible name anyway. Tomorrow I am making an instructional video on how to make fresh pasta. It is primarily for consumption by a family we know that owns a deli and wants to learn how I make fresh pasta. I have been making fresh pasta since I was knee-high to a duck. I learned from my mother who learned from hers and so on. In my family's corner of Tuscany there was no tradition of dried pasta. Too much humidity. So, when they weren't eating beans (we are the mangiafagioli after all), they made and ate fresh pasta.

There are still some who think that fresh pasta is superior to the dried. It isn't any more than pasta is superior to risotto. They are different ducks with different quacks. Why all the corn-ball duck imagery? I have been craving duck confit.

Speaking of corn, we watched The Hee Haw Collection, Vol. 4, which features Waylon Jennings. It is fantastic, although there are a couple of duds, as all of them have. For instance: the Hagens. I am sure they are nice guys, but putting them on the same bill as Waylon and Buck and so on is just cruel. Amalia thinks that there was not enough Archie Campbell, and she is right, but both of us would be happy to have an all Archie Campbell DVD, so we are probably a little biased.