A Pasta Story

Still just beaming over this evening 🥹

Happy weekend loves! Slow down, pray, and remember, if it’s God’s will, it WILL.

Sunday was just SO beautiful on every single level.

CLASS: The Rita Ana, for 14 beautiful ladies🤍
Traditional ricotta ravioli + fettuccine with olive oil Olive Branch Markets and hand crafted bread tasting

As always… my heart could explode with gratitude. GRAZIE!

I hope to see you there!!!!
Pastapertutti.eventbrite.com

THURSDAY, JULY 18th, 6:30 PM, $45 PP

Join us as we gather in the name of love and PASTA and enjoy the most beautiful sunset views you’ll catch in Stuart + an evening of charcuterie, herbal wine spritzers, a bruschetta table thanks to , olive oil sampling, pasta tasting + SO much more.

I genuinely am so full of excitement and I can’t wait to PARTY with you. This event is so special & a bit different. This party is for any & everyone local who is interested, but is on the behalf of celebrating the release & launch of my virtual pasta master course coming THIS MONTH.

It TRULY will be a scene from Sorrento. Enjoy this evening as a date night or girls night out evening…. See you SOON 🤍

Wear your whites, blues & yellows… ok?!

(direct eventbrite link is in my bio!)

A Scene from Sorrento Join us for charcuterie, herbal spritzers, bruschetta bar, pasta + olive oil tasting & sunsets to celebrate the LAUNCH of “Pasta Per Tutti”

MASTER CLASS… SOON- Pasta per tutti!! (Pasta for ALL) COMMENT BELOW YOUR FAV: Ravioli, gnocchi or fettuccine?!

XO-love y’all, pasta fam!!!

Taught with my… MOM last night!! What an honor to have been able to do this for the first time! She did a quick Manicotti tutorial as well… should I add this to my offerings?? 🤪

I love you guys!!! SOON… I’ll be in your homes and hearts- near and far!!!!

XO

My favorite point of view…🍸🍝🇮🇹🩵
My heart is beaming with LOTS of joy as I secure and work on releasing my… MASTERCLASS! I am so stoked, fam!! You have all been along with me on this crazy ride for almost FOUR years now. You have all evolved and grown with me and my growing family for all this time. And finally something so near and dear to me is coming to your homes… SOON! You will ALL, near and FAR, be able to have endless pasta nights with loved ones and friends in your very own home with what I have in store and put together in my masterclass bundle!

The entire masterclass package will be $99 with $30 OFF ($69) in honor of my THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY next month!!! The discount only lasts 30 days, and the price will remain at $99 indefinitely after. So GRAB IT before that! This means… you can have all your friends over with me up on your laptop or tv screen or phone teaching the exact craft I have been honoring forever with my family, and the past 4 years with my clients! My Masterclass is beginner pasta making fool PROOF. NO KITCHEN AID. NO PASTA MACHINE AND NO CRAZY TOOLS NEEDED. EXACTLY how my grandmother did it. All tools are compiled in a simple Amazon store list (you can make pasta with my method for less than $20 in tools, literally!)

Comment EMAIL to be put on my email list!!! I AM SO EXCITED. ARE YOU?! 💃🫒🥖🍝

Friday night festivities!

Happy FRIDAY 💛

Still not over this perfect group from Tuesday 🥹 Event details!

🍝 Class: The Rita Ana, handcrafted traditional ricotta ravioli & fresh cut fettuccine, with a twist of fettuccine Alfredo. Each attendee learned how to hand craft their very own pasta dish, from start to finish. Cooked & garnished by yours truly ;)
🍸: 1/2 San Pellegrino bubbly, 1/2 Pinot Grigio, paired with sliced lemon, and fresh picked Holy Basil Flowers & Rosemary (yes, from my very own organic garden!)
🥗: These luscious carbs were paired with a crisp Caesar salad & meatballs from
🫒: Olive oil from but of course & bread tasting from
🧀: Alfredo- the TRUE authentic Roman way. Parmigiano Reggiano shredded freshly over the hot fettuccine, approx. 1c pasta water (if you know, you know), 1 stick of butter, quartered (hey don’t judge my butter usage 🤪) THATS IT. No soupy cream!

Another super sweet group awaits me tonight- my week is full of: 🍝🇮🇹🍷💃🥖 🫒!!!

Bookings are open for June… limited availability as of currently!

Love you, my pasta fam!

K-Lynn Kelley McKerchie

The most AMAZING birthday celebration alongside the absolute most phenomenal humans I could ever meet. Thank you for having me!! Happy birthday Terry!!!!

A Sunday pizza homemade, homegrown sauce, love affair with some really amazing humans & family. Taking SO much joy in this new thrifted Pfaltzgraff dinner wear set I just got. I LOVE this 70s browns/bronze vintage set. It feels so beautiful to thrift a set that was once used around the table with family and friends alike, as I continue that tradition in my own home.

Felt called to share something a little differently today. I’ve totally been breaking promises that I’ve been making to myself. Promising myself for my master class to be out before my 30th birthday, (which I’m still aiming do), planning my guided tour to Italy, trying to tell myself to be better and keep up with content for “Business sake”. It’s easy for me to just want to fall, forget it all, and just say oh screw it, I haven’t done these things so there it is. It’s done and I’m just not capable.

But I will not stop. I will stand up again, even if I have to do so embarrassed, even if I have to do so after breaking promises to myself. I will not take the easy way out, the easy way meaning to just listen to thoughts saying “stop it all”. I will fall down seven times and stand up eight.

So here I am right along with you guys, only human. My journey is not some big, beautiful rainbow because I have super cute business content, and what looks like my “sh*t” together. I don’t, I’m only human, but here’s a difference: I will keep going. I will keep going, embarrassed. I will keep going even if it feels like I should stop. I will keep going even through the fears and thoughts of what others might think of me, what if this fails, if this doesn’t work, what if I just waste my money on an Airbnb shooting this masterclass: I will keep going. And I’ll do it embarrassed, I will do it with the fear of what others might think of me-

That’s, what makes all the difference… I’ll do it embarrassed.

I just heard on a podcast something that really hit me, like the speed of light. Word for word, it said “I asked God, why are you taking me through troubled waters? He replied, because your enemies can’t swim.”

I’ll just leave this here for today 🤍

Moral of this ramble: Do it embarrassed.

Pasta 🍝 & plants 🪴, is there anything better?

I have three openings for JUNE! Who am I meeting this steamy south Florida summer?!

Have an amazing week, pasta fam 🤍

🍋 Last week concluded my last in home date night & was such an amazing, beaming, beautiful couple to close that chapter with in my business. Making this decision was so hard for me, honestly date nights are one of my favorite things to teach. With how busy I have gotten, between my business, two beautiful babies, managing my husband’s business, being a mother, wife, friend, etc., etc… I have had to trim down my workload, and setting an event minimum was the only way I could do so. In short, I can’t mange it ALL 🤪

If I ever had the pleasure of meeting you for a private in-home date night, I am so honored to have done so!

Thank you for staying along for the ride as I continue to refine and revisit my business to fit my growing family’s needs.

My current event minimums are set to five people per event, $120 per person, and I am only accepting four events per month 💜 so get in my books while you can!!

I love you, pasta fam!!

✨ Pasta golden hour ✨

Hi babes 👋🏼 I’m here and I’ve still been doing events! Just a lot slower & with some new minimums/guidelines 🤍 I miss you guys! Please tell me something good lately??

Xo
Mama

🍝 ciao pasta fam 🍝

It’s been a while- I know!! Believe it or not I have still been teaching classes, just at a FAR slower rate.

Truthfully speaking. I have been reflecting on how much I have been hustling this past year, with just welcoming another baby this past October.

December- I had 12 private events.

January… 9. It continued along that path until I honestly just nearly… collapsed.

I honestly- NEEDED A BREAK! A big one. Believe it or not, lol!

These past few weeks I have been just… chilling. Well. As much as you can chill with a 2 year old & 5 month old, running a household & 2 businesses between my hubs & I. Wowza 😅

I’ve been focusing on moving slower. Being a better wife, mother, to myself. Emphasis on the, slowing down part.

After some decent time offline, I’ve thought really hard about how I want to pivot & lower my work load to enjoy being a mommy while my babies are so so little, and needy 😜

I love you guys, and I know this will DEFINITELY slow down my work load, BUT… that’s literally the point! Hehe! And of COURSE if you have already booked with me, you are grandfathered in to previous rates & regulations 🤍

Thanks for still being here… I promise… I’m not going anywhere 🤪

& shes… BRANDED 🤍 so ecstatic to have made another huge investment in my business! All classes will now have my branded aprons ✨ these canvas totes are a DREAM. I love them! New business cards, postcards, stickers, car prints, and so much more 🥹

These purchases & decisions always seem really scary at first. But the more I dive into my authentic self and trust…. The more that comes.

Have a freaking delicious Monday pasta fam 👋🏼

Happy LEAP YEAR birthday to this gorgoues client, Vera! I feel so honored that I was a key part of celebrating this beauties LEAP birthday! How rare, how special?

I hope you ENJOY your day to the fullest since it only comes once every four years!

And how beautiful are these amazing mamas 🥹

MASTERCLASS IS IN THE WORKS… officially!

I’m so excited! I have been holding back for TWO years now, discrediting myself, and using the excuse that I don’t know how to operate the online “course” selling space for so long now.

But- she’s in the WORKS! I’m freaking pumped to gather eveything I have learned along the way with my pasta fam over these last nearly FOUR years of teaching pasta in person. All of THE most commonly asked questions & mistakes made will be addressed, keeping it SIMPLE with my passed down hands only approach method of pasta making (no $800 kitchen aid or attachments needed!!), traditional ravioli, fettuccine, farfalle & gnocchi ALL bundled up and included in one spot, taught by YOURS truly. This course is centered around SIMPLICITY. Simple to follow along & execute your pasta crafting with simple perfection (and love). Near or far, you’ll be able to host a pasta party with me in your kitchen, virtually!

I’m so excited babes- who’s ready?! DM me your email to be added to my email list & the first to know when this baby is released! Oh! And I’ll respond back with a promo code to apply when ready 😜

Woohoo! 🎉

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A pasta progression… swipe for the process 🍝🍸🌿💫🧀🥖

Galentines Day done right 💋💄💕🍫💘💭🎀💃💅🏻

Happy Valentine’s Day, loves! A holiday I have always adored and looked forward to 💗 thought I’d show my face around here and say… hey 👋🏼

A beautiful line up of dinners & events this week- I’m stoked- drop a comment if I’m meeting you this month!! PS-with the extreme (thank you!!!) growth of my business in the last year, I NO longer can accept inquiries via DM or Facebook messenger. I have some auto responses set up to direct you to my contact form on my website & also some FAQ buttons for your convenience 🤍

And a friendly reminder that as glorious and beautiful my content may look- I promise I’m just another fellow sweating mom behind this screen trying to answer back inquiries between kids slapping & demanding me 😅

I do not have a glorious schedule or routine or anything of that sort. 9/10 days feel EXTREMELY (emphasis) messy and All. Over. The. PLACE. Yet. I continue to pray. And just… do it. Through & with the mess. Showing up as… me ;)

Keep shining fam. ILY!

Such a coastal, beautiful & heartfelt family dinner for 6 this week 🩵

Details 💫

🥂 Drinks: White wine spritzers enhanced with organic lavender & rosemary accents clipped fresh from my garden

🌿 Class: The Gabriella, herbal, whipped goat cheese ravioli with a gentle squeeze of lemon & fresh hand cut fettuccine for 6

🫒 Sauce: Olive oil carefully & gently seared with fresh sliced garlic & parsley, Parmesan to top. Using only the best from our local grown, bottled & made right here in florida.

🛥️ View: complements to the gorgeous Manatee River

🍋 Decor: dancing with “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” (iykyk), Chianti, and a meaningful bottle of wine that has been saved by the family since 2009!!, that was finally enjoyed last night

What a dream this past week was! Engagement celebration & a beautiful birthday party for the most amazing group of mamas ✨

So grateful for all of my amazing clients who make this all possible- a dream come true.

Messages are open for bookings or questions!!

XO
Elena

What an amazing 30 days I have had at “work”
with you all.

You all amaze & inspire me. I am so lucky to be stepping into a FOURTH year in business this year. As a stay at home mama, I couldn’t be more grateful. Your support means the world to me and my family, and I know my grandmother would be SO proud of this endevour I have created through our hearts & heritage.

THANK YOU! Check out apastastory.com or message me for any questions. I love my pasta fam 😭

Your private pasta chef at your service 👩‍🍳 🍴

What an honor it was to serve this amazing local biz’s holiday party! Charcuterie, herbal spritzers, local bread, pasta crafting and finally served up the magic of course 🍝

If a pasta making class isn’t for your group, this is an amazing option to sit back, relax, sip away & watch the crafting unRAVel 😜

Kinda like hibachi- but make it pasta 💫

Happy new years you guys- lots more coming your way.