![]() There are pasta dishes to pick up and eat there (they can get mushy if transported home to reheat later) and lasagnas to take home and bake yourself - he makes them with his own pasta sheets, meat sauce, asiago, buffalo mozzarella, regular mozzarella and Parmesan.Īs with comedy, he's focused on the experience - on showing his audience a good time. The meats and sausages for his homemade sauces come from a butcher at Lina's, and he gets cheeses from Say Cheese!, also in the market. These days, Fink makes hundreds of pounds of pasta (and even fresh ramen noodles) a week - all sold fresh, never frozen or dried. "I have more than once in the learning process emptied the entire hopper by hand and started all over again." Showing the audience a good time The dough depends on the flour, the humidity - it has to be the right balance. "The hilarious thing is, after running it for a while somebody said, how do you know when it's ready to turn out? And my only answer was, 'it looks right'. "It's like a giant Play-doh fun factory," he says of the pasta machine, which has attachments to make different shaped noodles, from fusilli to ramen. ![]() ![]() "He was going to put this 400-pound pasta machine in the back of his Honda and drive it to Halifax," Fink said, "and I was like, why don't I just buy it from you?"įink had been making his own pasta at home for years, but it took some tweaking to get a feel for the larger scale. When this past fall a friend who owned a pasta company at the market decided to move away, Fink offered to take it over. Here's a take and bake lasagna from Jebb's Joint, complete with fresh pasta sheets, homemade sauce, and cheese from Say Cheese! (Julie Van Rosendaal/Twitter) Like 'a giant Play-doh fun factory'
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