***** MAKING HOMEMADE PASTAS..******

So Fresh Homemade Pastas  vs. Dried,  the Boxed Pastas  that are readily available 
at all stores, which do you want ?
(1)Homemade pastas  cooks faster, and  (2) also absorbs sauces better.
Boxed pasta is great too - but fresh pasta is preferable!
The best part of making your own food is the ability to experiment!    
Fresh pastas simply tastes better, and absorbs sauces more than boxed pasta,
they are gr8 to try out and also are cheaper. Just try both of them and you 
will feel the difference by yourself. The taste, the texture, the cooking time 
and many more. Try  to make interesting, unusual home-made pastas.
Pasta-making is more about the technique. Pasta comes in an astonishing 
variety of shapes.
Pastas can be made from durum . wheat flour, water, and a little salt
.And the other pastas are made from eggs, flour, and salt. what to add 
to the pasta dough to add color and taste. 
Few interesting additions could be   

• puree of spinach
• carrots
• beetroot juice
• tomato puree

WHY ADD ' SEMOLINA ' TO THE DOUGH OF PASTA...TIP

Semolina is a coarse ground version of durum wheat flour, a "hard " wheat flour. 
It is very high in gluten, and helps the pasta stand up to boiling. Because it is hard
to knead,so most of the homemade pasta uses a mixture of all purpose flour and 
semolina. Semolina adds a subtle flavor to the pasta.

RECIPES TO MAKE PASTAS...  pasta with durum wheat makes for four persons.
Need :  250 gram , i. e 1 cup + 2 Tbsp,  flour of durum wheat, add  1/2 cup water,
and a pinch of salt.
Make a dough, roll and cut what shape pastas you want, leave to dry, then boil.
A tip : press dough, roll gently with rolling pin and cut into strips of desired width with
sharp knife. Carefully unfold strips.  Pasta can be dried and stored at this point.
This recipes is making use of eggs..    
 
{ For stuffed pasta, be sure to add 1 teaspoon milk for every egg you use}

• 3 eggs, room temperature
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• a pinch of salt

• 2  cups plain flour

Futtucine, Lasagna are the square or rectangular sheets of pasta.
Tortelli are the stuffed pasta with a potato based filling, they must be made
by hand to come out right, because the dough of the sheet is too thick for machines.    

Ravioli are pastas with a filling of  either meat, vegetable, or fish-based.    
For lasagna have to  leave the sheets to dry as is, or cut them into usefully-sized rectangles.
For other kinds of pasta such as futtucine or tortelli, roll the sheets,and hang these to dry.

Tip: Cooking | Boiling tips...

For filled pasta such as ravioli, do not let the dough surface dry. 
Fresh, not dried pasta cooks very quickly in two to three minutes,
while dried pasta may take eight to ten minutes.

TIP 2 BOIL PASTAS..
Fresh pasta only needs a few seconds in boiling water! 

 How to cook or boil the pastas , When the water comes to a boil, add 1 tablespoon of salt.
Add the pasta and give it a good stir, stir occasionally and check a piece of pasta and check for "doneness",  if done then  drain the pasta.
       more 2 come....