I am taking the plunge this afternoon and making pasta, Top Tips please!!

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I am going to make pasta for the first time today, after receiving a pasta maker for my birthday.

What's your best pasta recipe, or are they all much the same?

How long does the fresh pasta keep for? Will it all have to be used this evening or will the remainder be good tomorrow???

It looks so simple on TV, but am imagining myself a weeping mess on the kitchen floor surrounded by flour and broken spaghetti strands

I use just under 100g of pasta flour to an egg.

I mix the dough in the food processor.

You can put semolina in the dough to make it more stretchy. So about 20g to 80g of flour and an egg.

You need to rest the dough for a couple of hours.

I don't keep any dough but I do keep the pasta uncooked sometimes.

Thank you SavoyCabbage , have DH picking up some semolina on his way home, hadn't seen this mentioned in most online recipes I have found.

Another Pasta virgin question, is a few minutes in boiling water enough to cook? Am just going for spaghetti today, though am getting very excited about ravioli and what i can fill it with. Am hoping to graduate to crab & lobster ravioli soon

Mine has a ravioli attachment but I've never mastered it. I got a ravioli tray after a while. I put pumpkin, spinach and ricotta in mine but I find it hard work. Whereas just pasta is quick and easy.