Now, making homemade pasta is a labor of love. An Italian nonna may make a fresh batch of dough every Sunday morning, but many of us only roll up our sleeves to make pasta for special occasions.

Role the dough into desired shapes and sizes cannelloni, ravioli, thin noodles etc and enjoy a fresh and homemade pasta. Add water, a little at a time, to knead into a stiff dough. 3. Rest the dough, ...

Roll the dough into a rectangle that is about 5mm/¼in thick. Feed the pasta through a pasta machine on the widest setting. Fold and feed through again. Repeat the process four or five times.

A food processor or mixer to knead the dough, together with a pasta attachment to roll and cut the finished dough to size are both useful bits of kit if making pasta becomes your thing!