I am officially in the business of trading my homemade bread for other goods and services. This weekend I shared two loaves (cheese and onion bread and Italian wheat bread) with my friend Francesca in exchange for her homemade pasta. Ive never made homemade pasta, and I dont intend to as long as Ive got sweet Fran around. This took her hours to prepare and it tasted like it. So fresh and nourishing. Frans dad owns an Italian restaurant in New York, so she threw this whole masterpiece (which we affectionately started calling “paradise pasta”) together off the top of her head. But here are a couple recipes with similar ingredients.