Do you make your own pasta?

[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

[Kimmyt]

I made some awesome gnocchi not too long ago. It was surprisingly easy and it turned out well, I would recommend it for people who want to make their own pasta but are afraid to make something too labor intensive.

[malkin]

I did it several times a week for about a year when I was nouveau pauvre, not quite divorced (no income) with a two year old. She and I had great fun and something to eat afterwards. We used a hand crank machine.

I used all the variations from Abby Mandell's Cuisinart cookbook. The kid's favorite was the spinach one, because she liked cranking the spinach in the salad spinner and because the pasta comes out a beautiful green.