Homemade Pasta Made Simple: A Pasta Cookbook with Easy Recipes & Lessons to Make Fresh Pasta Any Night

Excellent recipe book with a variety of fresh pasta to make delicious meals. Easy to follow examples. AA++

I love this book, I've cooked almost every recipe in the book. The ragu bolognese sauce recipe is excellent.

I am a novice pasta maker, this book made my first endeavor a success. It is very well written, easy to follow. The illustrations are very good. I have only followed 2 recipes so far, but I am sure that I will continue to use this book as my pasta journey continues

Wow, this book really has all the details for making pasta! You can tell this author was raised in Italy because they use so many different names for pastas that are literally the same except for the width you cut each noodle into. The instructions for shaping different pastas are very detailed and look very simple to follow. I just got the book today so I haven't had the chance to try the recipes yet, but I suspect I will be eating a lot more pasta now. Only one thing disappointed me. I was looking for recipes to make flavored pastas- chocolate, tomato, spinach, etc. This book concentrates on shaping the pasta instead. There is one page that mentions adding flavors to the basic recipe, but I was hoping for more. Oh well. This does look like a book I will use over and over.

Good for beginners. Will look for a good intermediate level next.

My handyman has been making homemade noodles (with pasta machine) for over 10 years but never was able to use his cutter because his pasta fell apart before he could use the cutter part. .He made his noodles (hand cut with a pizza cutter) as a Christmas present for me. His noodles were awesome (I had never had homemade noodles before). I was hooked - I never knew there was such a huge difference between store-bought and homemade noodles.. I ordered this book and loaned it to him since he (with experience) would know what they were talking about. We had a pasta making day last Friday and it was awesome. He learned a ton from the book about how to make and handle the dough. We used my digital scale to weigh the flour (apparently a critical step).He kneaded the dough as usual, and wrapped it in plastic wrap to rest (which he had never done before) Simple steps, but it made all the difference. He was thrilled about how the dough went through the machine (using the steps in the book), and even more thrilled when he could use the cutters for making perfect noodles. He's still talking about it and how the simple steps perfected his dough, and his dough went through the pasta machine just like the photos in the book. Caveat: with homemade noodles (dehydrated or not) you have to use a lot more liquid than normal recipes. I made spaghetti Friday night. My cutter made basically angel hair pasta (which I like thicker spaghetti). It was ok, but my husband got heartburn from my sauce (my fault). Next night I made lasagna from the pasta we made. I couldn't find my recipe (and had to wing it). It was a flop, but not because of the pasta. I adjusted the sauce recipe (to keep hubby from having heartburn) but didn't adjust for additional liquid needed for fresh pasta (non boiled). Lasagna was too dry. Handyman and I critiqued my lasagna the next day and figured out how to change how I did it. Based on what I've learned, my next attempts should be much better, bordering on awesome. First attempts are can be frustrating, but you learn and improve. Regardless, this book is awesome and we will continue to use the simple steps to make perfect homemade pasta.

I bought one for myself and one for my daughter, can’t wait to start making pasta.

To be a book all about pasta, it only gives a few recipes. It talks about using all purpose flour yet it doesn't give a recipe without eggs unless you buy special flour. All of the different ways that you can make pasta shapes for different meals do not contain any type of illustrations for those of us that sometimes need to see more than just words on the page. I was expecting more and instead I still do not have a recipe I care to use nor am I sure that I'm doing a technique correctly because I have to keep rereading with no visual aid.

Mijn zoon is er helemaal blij mee, de recepten zijn goed beschreven (Engels)

I shopped around before I decided on this book. I use my mixers pasta attachment..it didn't disappoint the first thing I made was lasagne sheets and it was so easy

Such an easy reading book as I’m a total beginner I found this book perfect for what I needed to make my own pasta and gave me ideas beyond my thinking , everything explained in simple form totally recommend this book for all

Very good details easy to follow

this is the best book for beginners if you want to learn how to make any kind of pasta it's in this book...their is a few recipes on spaghetti sauces and stuff like that but mostly it's recipes how to make spaghetti macaroni rigatoni you name it is in this book it's worth every penny