Making Pasta

Making Pasta With All Shapes and Sizes

Pasta is a widely known food that originate from Italy. As a woman I have always been inspired to try and make my own pasta. However, hearing stories on how easy it is to go wrong when making pasta have prevented me from ever trying. I have friends to have tried and end up with a soggy uninspiring mess.

Well, that was in the past.....

Now I love to make homemade pasta for my families and friends. All thanks to being brave enough to take the first step and never to give up. Most of all thanks to my favorite pasta making machine, the Atlas Pasta Maker and my secret pasta recipe.

As with all the most basic foods the key to cooking good pasta is to choose good quality ingredients. The simpler the food the more important quality becomes. Poor quality can be less easily disguised in a simple pasta dish than in something more elaborate.

Want to know my secret pasta dough recipe? Click on Making Pasta.....

Good quality pasta is made from durum wheat.

Families and friends who have eaten my freshly home made pasta swears by them because the pasta dishes taste more authentic. Even though pastas are made from cheap ingredients, it does not necessarily make your dish cheap. Fresh homemade pasta taste excellent and you do not need to dish out elaborate sauces just to make your dish stand out.


When making pasta, you also need a large pan to cook. I highly recommend avoiding using stainless steel pans because they are not good conductor of heat. It will make cause your pasta to sit in the water long during cooking and your pasta will go soggy.

Always boil your water to a good rolling boil before you add your pasta. Never put a lid on the pan and season your water with salt to prevent your pasta from tasting dull and bland.

Some people like to add oil to the water. They believe that this will stop the pasta sticking together. This is not true, because the oil stays on the surface of the water and does not touch the pasta. But oil can help to prevent the foam that is produced when cooking pasta from boiling over the side of the pan.

After a few minutes of boiling lift out a piece of pasta from the boiling pan and squeeze between the nail of your thumb and forefinger. It should have a slight resistance and is known as al dante.  There is some "bite" left in it. Your pasta is now ready to serve with the sauce of your choice.

Do not be afraid to create your own homemade pasta. It can be done. Learn how I do it with my favorite pasta making machine. Click on Atlas Pasta Maker to start dishing out great tasting pastas for your families and friends.

Start Making Pasta From Home

Make Pasta From Home Is Now A Breeze

The thought of making pasta from home can be quite scary for a lot of people. They have the impression that to make good pasta you will be cooped for hours in the kitchen rolling and kneading the pasta dough.

In the olden days, that may be the case. However with new advances in technology, the pasta machine has gone through many changes to catch up with the change in modern technology. Now, making pasta from home is a snap. All you need is a good quality pasta machine and this is where the Atlas pasta maker comes to the rescue. Why I recommend you the Atlas pasta maker? Because I have been making home-made pasta with it and this pasta machine makes me look like a chef....:)

Ever since I got my pasta machine I have turn into a wonderful Italian chef. I can now dish out great tasting pasta dishes such as macaroni, cannelloni, lasagna and spaghetti. All this is done without having to slave myself in the kitchen for hours. Your family will definitely know the difference between fresh homemade pasta and dry packed pasta. In my family, the homemade pasta wins hands down. It has now become a norm in my household.


Making homemade pasta allows me to be creative. I used to only prepare plain macaroni and cheese. Now I can concoct flavorful recipes with hardly much effort. All thanks to my pasta maker machine. My Atlas Pasta Maker is truly simple to operate and comes with optional attachments.



The basic maker has a handle which you turn as you feed the dough through the machine. To free up your hands, purchase the motor to make preparing pasta faster. With older pasta machines, it took two people to turn the dough into noodles. Today this has gone to a one man operation indeed.

The Atlas pasta machine will quickly become a staple in your kitchen, you won't know how you managed without it before. You will have a kitchen gadget that can be passed down to your children too, they are that sturdy and reliable.

Looking for a pasta maker machine? Click on Atlas Pasta Maker to read my review.