Good Pasta, Bad News

Hi folks, it's your cooking hero Chef G. here, and I'm pleased to welcome you to another episode of the Chef G. Cooking Channel.  A couple days ago I was very excited to brag about how I prepared homemade pasta for the first time.  It was a major revelation to me that I could make a batch of linguini by stirring some eggs into a pile of all-purpose flour, then smooshing it together with my bare hands, then forming it into a ball, then wrapping the ball in Saran wrap, then letting the ball sit in the wrap for an hour, then cutting the ball into four pieces, then rolling the hell out of each piece with a rolling pin until it would roll out no more, then cutting the flattened dough into narrow slices with a pizza cutter.

I gotta tell ya, it was big time fun.  Sure, it took a lot of time and effort, but the results were so much tastier than what you can get out of a $3.00 box of Creamette's linguine from the grocery store.

One ball of dough rolled out on the board, another ball in my hand ready to go.

Here is the linguine I sliced from the first ball.

Here is the linguine I sliced from all four balls.  That's a nice batch of linguine.

I know, I know--I should have taken more pictures of the process.  Somehow, I went into a pasta-making trance and lost track of what I should have been doing to enhance this blog post.

The only thing I have left in my arsenal is to show you the final result.

Homemade pasta doesn't need spaghetti sauce slathered all over it.  All I did was drizzle a little olive oil and sprinkle some salt & freshly chopped flat leaf parsley.  DELICIOUS!

Despite my pasta making success, this blog post comes with a heavy heart.  I saw something on my news feed that makes me think I should change my name.

I just found out there is a rapper out there named Sheff G. who is a big fan of former president Trump.  Sheff G. sounds too much like Chef G. for my comfort.  I don't get much relief from the fact that Sheff G has a criminal record and I do not.  Okay, I get it that some people might think this blog is a criminal offense to literature.  So be it.

Anyway, I hope you can click on this video of Mr. Trump introducing Sheff G. who, in turn endorsed the ex-president who thinks he is still the president. 

Of course, Sheff G. can endorse whoever he wants, and Trump can endorse any rapper he wants.  I just don't want to be associated with either one of them.

I might have an alternative to changing my name, however.  I could sue Sheff G. for copyright infringement.  I think a good, high-powered lawyer could convince any jury in the land that Sheff G. only came up with his lame name to profit from the fame of the original Chef G.