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First of all I have been making fresh pasta for about a year. I have had wonderful success with flour, eggs and salt. That is it. That is the recipe for pasta. FLOUR EGGS AND A PINCH OF SALT. Everyone who critized this recipe needs to relax and read ALL of the directions. Fresh pasta is one of the easiest things to make.

To make the dough by hand, mound the flour in a bowl or better yet on a flat, non-porous surface 鈥?your counter or tabletop work great. Add a pinch of salt to the flour. Without it, the pasta will taste flat.

How to use a pasta machine To roll out pasta with a pasta machine, following the included instructions, set machine to widest setting then lightly flour machine and dough. Feed 1 dough portion through machine. Repeat 2 more times, folding dough in thirds and turning 90 between rolls until smooth and the same width as the machine (at least 12cm).

This recipe makes 1 1/2 pounds pasta. Heap the flour, and make a well in it. Break the eggs into the well. Beat eggs with a fork. Stir into the flour from the bottom of the well with the fork until the dough in the center is smooth or shiny.