Raise your hand if your idea of comfort food is a bowl of fresh steaming pasta? My hand is definitely in the air! When the seasons start to change and fall is in the air, my mind (and belly) starts to crave that hot wholesome goodness of noodles!
I’ve been thinking about making our own pasta for awhile now, but all of the gadgets I’ve looked at where intimidating and I was sure this was going to be difficult. Still the idea of making pasta fresh at home for my house full of growing boys intrigued me, so when I had the chance to try out the Philips Avance Collection Pasta Maker, I jumped at it!
Gone are the days where pasta making was messy and complicated, this little machine does all of the work for you! I can’t believe how easy it was, and you won’t either. Let me walk you through it.
Step One: Measure your flour using the flour cup that comes included. Scrape off any excess with the flat cleaning tool edge, shaking or hitting the cup on the counter will affect the flour weight. One cup makes 1-2 servings of fresh pasta, 2 cups makes 3-4.
Step Two:
Turn the machine on and select program one for one cup or two for two cups and press start.
Step Three:
Slowly pour your liquid through the opening on the lid.
The machine takes it from here, you can watch through the lid to see it all in action as the dough is kneaded together. We had the lid bump out of place a couple of times, if this happens just push it back down. The machine will stop on it’s own if the lid is out of place.
Step Four:
This is the exciting part! Pasta will start to appear in a few minutes. Use the flat edge of the cleaning tool again to cut your noodles to your desired length. Short noodles are great for kids and less cutting for you to prep their meal!
Here they come!!!
Voila! You’ve got a bowl full of fresh pasta! You can make one pound of pasta in just 15 minutes at minimal cost!
To cook the pasta just boil for 5-6 minutes.
I can’t wait to experiment with healthy ingredients like egg, spinach, and carrot juice and try out all the different shapes! The machine comes with 4 disks for Spaghetti, Penne, Fettuccini and Lasagna. I prefer a very thin noodle so I’ll be trying to hunt one down for a Spaghettini or Chinese Noodle size as well to go with our collection, my husband would love to make udon noodles.
The Spaghetti disk makes a nice dish!
The spaghetti and fettuccini disks come with a convenient one push cleaning tool, here’s a tip; put the disk in the freezer for a couple of hours (or even while your eating and cleaning up) it makes the dough hard and it will come out with ease! The flat cleaning tool that you used for levelling and cutting also works really well for popping out any left over dough.
I was delighted to see that there is a handy little drawer to store you disks and cleaning tool so you everything stays neatly together.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be having fun testing out all kinds of recipes and noodle styles, I’ve already got a chicken fettuccini alfredo in the works!
Want to try your hand at wowing your family with fresh homemade pasta? This is seriously the coolest thing my kids have every witnessed! lol Who knows, maybe you’ll have some extra help in the kitchen!
My favourite pasta dish is lasagna
I love any kind of pasta with Alfredo sauce, grilled chicken and veggies!
spaghettini with meatballs
I love pasta, I love lasagne, spaghetti bolognese etc but I think my favourite is shrimp and scallop alfredo, so yummy 🙂
my favorite pasta dish is Lasagna.
spaghetti with beef sauce topped with bacon bits and cheese
I love all pasta. My favorites are lasagna and fettuccini alfredo .
LOVE A VERY THIN PASTA WITH A ROSE SAUCE
we love chicken alfredo
My favorite noodle is Penne. It is the perfect noodle for speghetti sauce.
We adore spaghettini with prawns, grape tomatoes, mushrooms, asparagus and pine nuts with pesto!
Do I have to pick just one? I LOVE pasta! I guess chicken fettuccine with homemade Alfredo sauce!
I’m a huge fan of a hot cheesy lasagne!
I love a good Garlic Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp. Yum
my favorite is Seafood lasagna
Fettuccine alfredo!!! Nothing beats it!
I like a fresh linguine with a light sauce.
Love Penne a la Vodka
I love capellini pasta with marinara sauce topped with goat cheese! 🙂
I have so many favourite pasta dishes it’s hard to name just one, I’m a pastaholic..lol, I love lasagna the most, but if it has pasta I will eat it..lol this machine would be super awesome to own!!
I like spaghetti.
I love rigatoni with a fresh homemade Italian pasta sauce and parmesan cheese!
spaghetti with meat sauce is my fav!!
I GROW MY OWN TOMATOES TO MAKE SAUCE. I LOVE SPAGHETTI WITH THE FRESH TOMATOES SAUCE. YUM
pasta carbonara
I like pasta primavera.
I love fettuccini Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo
So many pasta dishes. I like a baked cheesy pasta or a fresh spicy dish is nice too.
i love spaghetti and meatballs
I love a good shrimp scampi pasta dish
Fettuccine alfredo
My favourite pastas dish is lasagna.
I love cannelloni!
My favourite pasta dish is Lasagna.
My favourite is fettuccine Alfredo.
Spaghetti & meatballs!
Lasagna is my favourite pasta dish.
I like Spaghetti Carbonara.
Cheers.
I love shrimp and scallop fettuccine Alfredo!
Oh I love Manicotti or Ravioli
Seafood lasagna!
I love spaghetti and lasagna!
Seafood lasanga is my fav!
I like lasagna
I love plain old Spaghetti and meatballs 🙂
Fetticini Alfredo. for sure
I love making homemade macaroni and cheese this would be perfect !
My favourite is fettuccine alfredo
I love pasta with any type of cheese especially Alfredo and cheddar.
I love spaghetti with homemade marinara and meatballs. I have wanted to make my own homemade pasta for awhile, this looks like the perfect small kitchen appliance to put on my want list 🙂
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My favourite pasta dish is my husband’s homemade lasagna
I love all pasta. But we probably eat spaghetti the most. I live with three growing boys and one man-child. ?
I love linguine. Nice bite to it
Lasagna is my favourite!
I love Rigatoni with a nice, chunky meat sauce!
Pasta alfredo
Lasagna has got to be my all time favorite when it comes to pasta!
So many pasta dishes I enjoy.. hard to pick a favorite.. Fettuccine alfredo
Tuna pasta salad. YUM!
spaghetti
Our family has to be gluten free, I make 90% of all our meals from scratch. I do make the fettuccini pasta it’s the family’s favorite with homemade red sauce!
My favorite Pasta dish is Lasagna 🙂 Thanks for the chance at this great contest.
My favourite pasta dish is lasagna
I love lasagna!
I love fettuccine alfredo and lasagna!
I love spaghetti and lasagna
I like fettuccine alfredo
Everything! But my top 3 are lasagne, goulash and spaghetti 🙂
I love fettucine Alfredo
I love spaghetti and cheese sauce
spaghetti with meatballs
I love so many kinds of pasta but my favourite is spaghetti with garlic cream sauce, shrimp, mushrooms & tomatoes. Yum!
we are huge pasta fans – lasagne, chicken parm and butternut squash ravioli top the list.
I love chicken fetichini
Lasagna is my favourite pasta dish.
Pesto chicken pasta is my favourite!
Just one?! I do love lasagna, and making it with homemade pasta would be amazing!
I always enjoy spaghetti.
I like Spaetzle. It’s a German noodle dish.
My favorite is cheese tortellini with blush sauce.
Spaghetti with tomato sauce and lots of veggies.
My favorite pasta dish is fettucinni alfredo.
My favorite is Shrimp Alfredo
Shrimp Alfredo!
My favourite pasta dish is a seafood fettuccini with a Rose’ sauce.
I love baked pastas – like lasagna!
Mmmmmmm I love pasta! Definitely a traditional spaghetti and Bolognese sauce kind of girl, but also love mac n cheese, pesto dishes and alfredo!
I love Fettuccine Alfredo!
Spagetti is my favourite pasta dish.
Chicken fettucine alfredo
lasagna
Spaghetti and lasagna all the way mmmmm pls let me win pasta maker I sooo need this Ty for chance good luck all
I love spaghetti!
In the end I just love spaghetti.
Spaghetti with meat sauce of course
By far spaghetti!
I love chicken Alfredo with broccoli. Sometimes we eat it with penne, sometimes fettuccine, or spaghetti noodles – whatever we have on hand!
Chicken Alfredo! <3 My favorite!
Any type of ravioli!
spaghetti & meatballs 🙂
I love rotini pasta with bolognese sauce
I’ve never had a pasta dish i didn’t like, but lasagna is my favorite
I have yet to meet a pasta I don’t like. If I had to choose, I would say lasagna is my favourite.
Wow! I’ve just noticed that the comment above mine is almost the same! Crazy!
I love spaghetti bolognese.
I love spaghetti with meatballs
My favorite pasta dish is lasagna.
My favorite pasta dish is lasagna!
Gnocchi with a creamy mushroom sauce.
I love angel hair the best.
My favorites are spaghetti, mac & cheese, and fettuccine alfredo.
Spaghetti with homemade sauce and parmesan cheese.
Lasagna
Lasagna!
I like a Parmesan Pesto, Fettuccine Alfredo, Lasagna
My favourite pasta dish is homemade noodles with a bit of butter and salt added. Simple and delicious.
Penne pasta with grilled peppers and Italian sausage
I love chicken penne alfredo
I love lasagna.
Chicken alfredo with penne
I love fettuccine alfredo
I love a good lasagne
My favorite pasta is spaghetti!
My favorite dish is Salsa Spaghetti with chicken 🙂
My favorite pasta dish is Chicken Parmesan and Spaghetti!
My favourite pasta dish is spaghetti and meatballs with tomato sauce.
Spaghetti of course!
spaghetti and meatballs is the family favorite
A light tomato sauce with lots of ground beef with my pasta
I love lasagna.
I really enjoy spaghetti with meat sauce.
I love Spaghetti Bolognese
Spinach pesto with pinenuts pasta with grilled chicken!
We all love a different pasta, but I love Fettuccine noodles, with any sauce.
Hmmm fave pasta dish and I can only pick one?? I guess I would have to say spaghetti with meat sauce. I love almost all pasta though!
I like pesto chicken pasta.
Seafood Fettuccine Alfredo
I really like lasagna.
I love seafood pasta!
I love ravioli.
I make an amazing lemon spaghetti that’s my fav. I bet it would taste even better with homemade pasta!
I love fettuccine Alfredo with broccoli
I love bowtie pasta with garlic, olive oil, and crushed red peppers with grilled shrimp! So delicious!
I love myself a nice carbonara!
Cannelloni is wonderful, it requires a lot of effort but the end result is worth it!
Angelhair with meat sauce. Yum!
I love the classic spaghetti & meatballs with lots of parm!!
Spaghetti and meatballs is my favorite
My favorite pasta dish is manicotti. I love this filled pasta, it’s so delicious!
My favorite pasta dish is vegetarian lasagna. I love it, my kids love it.
SPAGHETTI!!!!!
Penne with sausage in tomato sauce
Mine is Spaghetti with meat sauce with garlic toast! YUM!
This would be amazing to win!!! I absolutely love making homemade soups & to have fresh pasta with it would be fabulous!!!
Spaghetti is my favorite pasta dish.
Chicken Alfredo
angel hair shrimp
Rigtoni with ground turkey, tomatoe paste and my favorite italian dressing
A creamy, cheeesy, meaty lasagna
My favourite pasta dish is either chicken and mushroom sauce over fettuccine or lasagne.
My brother has a pasta press that takes so much effort that I quit borrowing it but I sure like homemade pasta a lot more than store bought.
I love fettuccine pasta with shrimp! SO good!
Lasagna is our favourite! so yummy
I love spaghettini in alfredo sauce with lots of prawns! 🙂
I love spaghetti!!!
I love spaghetti Carbonera.
Love love love lasagna!!
Homemade spaghetti, with hot italian sausage added to the sauce
Baked rigatoni
basil pesto
Spinach Lasagna! This pasta maker looks like so much fun!
It’s a toss up between fettucine carbonara and gnocchi.
i love many,so its hard to choose.im going with spagehti with a mild italian sausage
pesto arrabiata
It’s a pasta mix I like to make but don’t have a name for it. It has bacon, chicken, peppers, caramalized onions, chicken broth and noodles of choice. Next would be lasagna.
Butter Chicken lasagna
Spaghetti with olive oil and garlic. It’s particularly awesome with any kind of flavored pasta, like my spinach one.
My favourite pasta dish is homemade gnocchi.
Bacon carbonara is my fav.
Spaghetti with Chunky style vegetables and mushroom pasta sauce
lasagna
Lasagna
ooh tough one! I love lasagna and salmon rotini
I love pasta
Alfredo fettucini
gnocchi!
My favourite pasta dish is Penne all’ Arrabbiata.
Lasagna!
My favourite pasta is seafood linguine.
Lasagna
My favourite pasta dish is gnocchi with cream or pesto sauce
I love pasta, but my favourite dish has to be my mom’s homemade lasagne – it is the BEST!!
Vegetarian Lasagna
I love lasagna
penne bolognaise
mushroom ravioli!!
Melissa S
Mamawise.org
I love rigatoni with hot Italian sausage sauce.
I love all pasta! But since i just canned all my garden into beautiful spaghetti sauce, I will have to say spaghetti is my favorite!
My favorite pasta dish is Lasagna.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE sweet potato ravioli!
I make and love the best lasagne in the world
Our favorites are lasagna and fettuccini alfredo .
My favourite is lasagna. Or maybe chicken tetrazini. Tonight we had chicken parmesan with rotini.
Fettaciani alfredo
Lasagna!
i like spaghetti bolognese the best
If I win this my family will become pastavores
I meant to say, angel hair pasta with herbs and butter.
I love making fresh lasagna – meat, seafood, or veggies. Or a simple spaghetti with garlic, oil, and chilli peppers – delicious!
I love all pasta but fettuccine Alfredo would be my most favorite
Fettucini Alfredo…
this I could really use. I hope I win
fettucini with pesto
Spahgetti and meatballs
I like fresh pasta and gnocchi.
I’m going to say my fav has to be my daughters lasagne , its the best i’ve ever tried 🙂
Lasagna is my favourite pasta dish. Love Spinach and Cheese Lasagna.
my favorite pasta dish is Lasagna
I love fresh ravioli stuffed with pesto and ricotta.
lasagna would be my favorite
My favorite pasta dish is lasagna or spaghetti and meat sauce.
Definitely lasagna
I love making chicken Alfredo with penne pasta
Thai Noodles
I like my pasta really saucy with lots of veggies!
I make a huge batch of sauce every summer with the garden tomatoes and we all look forward to that ontop of spaghetti
Lasagne
Lasagna!!!
My favourite pasta dish is lasagna – thanks!
Pasta Primavera is always a big hit in our house.
The favorite pasta dish in my house is spaghetti and meatballs
Freshly made ravioli with sage butter.
I love chicken fettuccini alfredo!
I love lasagna with zucchini and ricotta.
I love fettuccine with clam sauce!
Whole-Grain Spaghetti With Garlicky Kale and Tomatoes is my favorite
I love Mac and cheese
Um, all pasta dishes lol! I really love fresh pasta though, with a little bit of oil and some fresh parsley and a sprinkle of freshly shaved parmesan.
I love lasagna, yum.
I love tortellini – meat or cheese!
My favourite dish is fettuccine alfredo
My favorite pasta dish is lasagna, but it can be such a pain to make that we usually opt for something easier.
I don’t think I’ve met a pasta dish that I did not like! I love it all… But by far, my favourite is Penne Arrabbiata; I love the spicy kick.
There’s nothing like home made pasta; it cooks in half the time of store bought varieties , you can add veggies to the dough adding more flavour and you know exactly what the ingredients are. Would love to win; thank you for the opportunity.
I added some spinach last night!
seafood linguine
Good old Spaghetti
I lo ve tortellini
My favourite is linguine with clam sauce.
Fettuccine alfredo is my favourite!
I absolutely adore lasagna! So yummy!
love pasta
ooooh…i love pasta, anyway it comes! my husband makes delicious sweet potato kale ravioli, which is to die for. i also love seafood fettucini and spaghetti and meatballs 🙂
I love spaghetti and homemade meatballs.
I like LASAGNA!! yum yum yum
Chicken carbonara!
I could make pasta every day
I like fettuccine Alfredo, mmmm!
Pesto
lasagna with callaloo or spinich
Spaghetti
My favourite is spaghetti with tomatoe sauce and meatballs
Tortellini in a bacon cream sauce
Spaghetti Carbonara
Lasagna
Lasagna is my fave!!
Spaghetti Alfredo
My favorite is a Greek dish called Pastitsio – similar to lasagna, it is layered ziti pasta and meat sauce topped off with a very thick layer of bechamel sauce! Thanks for the chance
It would have to be Lasagna
Anything carbonara!
My favourite is lasagna
This would be awesome. Less mess to clean.
Pesto pasta with squid ink pasta and chopped tomatoes on top…beautiful and delish!
Fettuccine Alfredo
Chicken penne.
i love alfredo
Penne pasta
Favourite pasta dish? Has to be my husband’s awesome sauce with organic ancient grain pasta and veggie meat!
Baked Penne Pasta with Tuna Fish
Spaghetti and meatballs is my favourite. It’s a classic.
My favourite pasta dish is Lasagna
I love spaghetti bolognese.
I didn’t even know these were a thing!!! Amazing! I love spaghetti, this would be a godsend.
love butternut squash ravioli
Looks easy can’t wait to try it out.
It would be lasagna.
My favorite pasta dish … is any pasta dish!! I am a pasta fanatic, love love love it. However, if I have to choose right now? It would be Fettuccine Alfredo.
Lasagna is my favourite pasta dish.
Fettuccine Alfredo yum!
Easily a homemade lasagna made with Nonna’s sauce!!
Pesto pasta – with squid ink pasta, topped with chopped tomatoes….looks and tastes beautiful!
definitely a tie between Chicken Parm and Lasagna! Yum.
I love a creamy cheese ravioli with rose sauce
spiced pasta my wife makes
I love penne bolognese and spaghetti marinara. That Philips pasta maker looks awesome.
spaghetti with meat sauce
Spinach spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce that has garlic, mushrooms and blue cheese!
I love lasagna!
Spaghetti and meatballs using my Grandma’s recipe and the freshest ingredients.
Lasagne
My favourite pasta dish is the one my mom always use to make for Sunday afternoon meals, and that I now make, Rigatoni baked in the oven with ground beef, sliced boiled eggs, mozzarella cheese, and lots of tomato sauce. What a meal, especially when served with Chianti wine, awesome. One large plate and you’ll be good for a 2 hour nap afterwards.
Love some gnocchi
I love vegetable lasagna with Alfredo sauce – absolutely delicious!!
spaghetti bolognese, keep it simple
My lasagna. It is one of the few thin gs I think I make well.
spaghetti is a favorite here
I love pasta so much!!.. Spaghetti definitely being a classic fav! 🙂
I am a huge fan of lasagna!! So good. We tend to make a lot of spaghetti around here as it is easy and our second favorite for sure.
I love lasagna
Lasagna
Ravioli
My favorite pasta dish is lasagna!
My favourite pasta dish would have to be Chicken Alfredo.
Hmm, probably lasagne, with spaghetti a close second!
I love all pasta but when I have the time to prepare lasagna I do because my family and I all enjoy it the most!
We love spaghetti and meat sauce in this house.
Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp.
My favourite dish is either gnocchi with a tomato sauce or fettucine carbonara.
My favorite pasta dish is spaghetti – with children, the old faithful spaghetti is always a hit!
Hard to choose but I think chicken penne with backed cheese and bolognese is my favorite. Thanks for the opportunity to win this awesome prize.
spaghetti and meatballs
Mac n Cheese!
I love lasagna!
Spaghetti carbonara! Our whole family loves it. Creamy and delicious
Lasagna is our favorite
Spaghetti with homemade sauce
Looks like a good pasta maker
My favourite pasta dish is fetuccini alfredo
Spaghetti and meat sauce!
Fettuccine alfredo with chicken is my favorite
I love fettucine alfredo but capellini with meat sauce is a close second.
I love fettuccine alfredo!
Angel hair pasta
all kinds … but if I had to choose I guess it would be roasted veggie lasagne
I have a weakness for seafood fettucini with pesto
i love spaghetti!
my favorite is chicken parm
with spaghetti
Linguine with anchovies
My favourite pasts is penne but The Kids love spaghetti and would have a great time with this. We make our own pizza dough so this is definitely next!
Besos, Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
we love making our own pizza dough too!
fettacini alfredo
I love anything and everything with pasta. I am a pasta fiend. I love shrimp alfredo!
My favourite pasta dish is lasagne.
baked ziti
My favorite pasta dish is baked ziti
I love Lasagne
Spaghetti and meatballs
My favourite dish is cheese ravioli with a simple garlic and basil sauce.
I love spaghetti and meat sauce@c