Do you make your own pasta?

[tulip]

Handmade pasta is one of my projects now that I have a kitchen. I don't have a pasta maker, though. But I'll try rolling and cutting.

If your pizza dough is sticky, try kneading it with a bit more flour. Not too much at a time. I make homemade pizza often, and it's quite easy once you get the hang of it. I don't even use a recipe anymore, but I have to remember not to forget the salt, or else it tastes really bland.

[Crankin]

I had one experience making home made pasta. It involved getting flour all over my kitchen, spilling oil on my new pants, and a large amount of wine.
I have a picture of me holding a screaming 8 month old, in the middle of this process.
The pasta maker attachment went into storage directly after that and then got thrown out in our cross country move. Now I get my home made pasta in restaurants!

[Biciclista]

Mimi does but not very often. My grandmother used to do it, and i have cousins who do every week. I don't have time!

[Blueberry]

I do make it, but not often. I've never had any real problems - and the result is totally worth it - I just don't eat pasta often

[OakLeaf]

Occasionally. We actually eat a lot of storebought dried pasta, so we think of pasta as the sort of meal we throw together at the last minute when we don't have a lot of energy or too many ingredients. So homemade pasta doesn't happen very often, but like CA, no real problems.

I have the pasta maker attachment for my Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I use the PTO way more often than I actually use it as a mixer.

[skinimini]

I don't normally make fresh pasta, unless I have a hankering for some really fresh ravioli, specifically [I]malfatti,[I] which is kind of a free-form ravioli. Yumm! I can get really good fresh pasta at the local market. Last week, I was in NYC for a business trip, and I bought some really fancy dried lasagna noodles from Dean and Deluca. The wild mushroom lasagna I made earlier this week was some of the best I've ever made. My husband didn't even fuss about it being vegetarian. Even great reheated.

I always make fresh pizza dough--usually a couple of times per month.

[ny biker]

I don't make fresh pasta (I'm a terrible cook, so boiling the stuff I get at the store is enough challenge for me!). But years ago I had friends who had a pasta machine and they made pasta often. Once for a Halloween dinner party they made really thin spaghetti with squid ink to make it black.

If I was going to attempt to make pasta, I would probably start with something recommended by Alton Brown.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/a...ipe/index.html