Mangia Con Elena

Tips for Making Homemade Pasta instagram @mangia.con.elena T he art of pasta making can be intimidating. I'm here to tell you that you can do it! There are a few general rules to follow and the rest is trial and error and continued practice.  I will be taking you through steps to make pasta using a pasta machine (in case you have one collecting dust in your pantry or would like to buy one!). I use a pasta machine because I love the feel of kneading pasta dough by hand and doing it the traditional way. I can easily control the desired thickness of my pasta by feeding it through decreasing width cylinders. The way my mom did it and my Nonnas and all of my relatives. Pasta making was a regular occurrence in my childhood house. My mom always had the flour out and was always making tagliatelle, fettuccine, quadratini, spaghetti, ravioli, canneloni and so much more. She learned to make pasta as a very young child. They never measured as everything was done ad occhio- by eye. More often t