Comments on: Pasta Basta (or home made pasta)

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:25:29 +0000

Walter, mine does the same thing. It curls and cracks while drying.

By: kennedy

kennedy — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:54:26 +0000

The noodles we have been making take forever to cook and are not tender or velvety, any suggestions

By: kennedy

kennedy — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:52:28 +0000

My husband has been making pasta using the maker, but I find that it is tough and takes for ever to cook.. not the tender, velvety noodles that one expects!! any suggests!

By: Bull

Bull — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:17:36 +0000

Gabi,
Thank you for this blog! I recently started making my own marinara sauce (I grow my own tomatoes year round down here in South Florida) and it’s great but the store bought pasta just never measures up so I was thinking of trying to make my own. With your helpful tips and great photos, I’m going to give it a try today. Thanks again, Gabi!

By: Gabi

Gabi — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:49:37 +0000

Lori – yes you need to boil the pasta even if it is fresh before making Lasagna with it. Boil it just like regular pasta al dente then as you take them out sheet by sheet from the water (I boil about 2 sheet at a time so I won’t crowd the pot), you let them drain on a cooling rack or something a little then start layering the lasagna in the pan.

Hope it helps!
Gabi.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:44:17 +0000

What I’m trying to figure out is if I make fresh pasta for lasagna, do I cook the pasta before I add it to the lasagna? If not, how long should the lasagna cook with fresh pasta?

By: Jane Lee

Jane Lee — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:49:19 +0000

Lisa, when I made my first pasta in years the other day, my first batch of spaghetti didn’t cut through. It was too wet. When I added more flour, it cut beautifully.

By: Gabi

Gabi — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:42:48 +0000

Jane! Ha! that’s a discovery! Dogs like fresh pasta too! Way to go! I wonder what are their sauce preferences… Hehe. Thanks for the comment!

By: Gabi

Gabi — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:23:25 +0000

Hi Lisa – It might be because the cutter rolls aren’t aligned properly and if the pasta is too soft they might not cut. It happens to me as well. A trick I’m using is to sort of push the rolling axle inward as I am rolling, if that makes sense. In other words as you are doing two moves in the same time with the same rolling hand – one rolling and the other move is pushing inwards. There, can I make it more confusing? lol…

Let me know if this worked…

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:13:42 +0000

can anyone tell me why sometimes pasta does not cut all the way through on the fettecine or spaghetti settings, and other times it does?