Pasta-making 101, all the equipment that Italy has to offer....and fresh tomato sauce and sweet backyard honey

Beginning with sweet honey, to be added some to the sauce

...our garden tomatoes

parboiling the tomatoes

juice extractor in the back, fresh tomato puree, foreground

Now sauce can be made, adding garlic and onions, herbs, and venison

pasta -- preparing the well for the fresh, backyard eggs

From the pasta machine

Trying three different pasta recipes

Drying the pasta

The winner: Almost all semolina

Making the fresh-whey ricotta

Gorgeous riccotta for lasagne