What is pasta made from? I want to make my own but am not sure if it has a lot of ingredients in that are hard to find.

One of the things that I have heard that can be done is to use raw potatoes. Try slicing some and stir into the pasta salad and let it sit and then remove them. Hope this helps!

This cannot be determined by the values you give. A cup is a measure of volume, while grams is a measure of weight. Since items of differing mass can have different weights, there is no actual answer. You CAN take 529 grams of pasta, measure it out and get a certain number of cups, and this value may work consistently for a certain brand and type of pasta (say Barilla elbow macaroni), but it may not be true for San Giorgio elbow macaroni, since San Giorgio may weigh more (or less) per cup, depending upon ingredients and moisture content.

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Watch this short video that shows 3 healthy recipes for pasta sauces and they are all based on lower calorie, lower fat versions of traditional recipes.

http://www.aarp.org/food/recipes/info-05-2012/pasta-sauce-recipes-pam-anderson.html

If you already know how to make pasta, it's not hard to make spinach or tomato flavored pasta. This site has nice instructions together with pictures to explain how to make spinach pasta.

http://www.bellalimento.com/2012/02/29/how-to-make-spinach-pasta/

If you are going to be doing a lot of exercise, it's a good idea to stock up on easily digestible carbs such as pasta as they help build up energy supplies without giving a fast sugar rush that will make you feel more tired in the long run.

Don't eat just before you exercise as this can cause stomach upsets. Try and eat something at least an hour or two before you start exercising.

Al dente is a fancy way of saying that pasta should be fully cooked but not soft and soggy. It is Italian that means 'to the tooth' as pasta is traditionally tasted by biting the pasta between your teeth.

I love cooking pasta in my microwave as I don't have to wait for the water to come to the boil.

Put your pasta in a large bowl with lots of water and season. I cook my pasta for around 10 minutes and stir it half way through. Test one piece and if you want to cook it for longer just bung it back in.

Not sure this will work, but try rocking the handle back and forth while pulling it out. On lots of things that are stuck, this will work.

maybe u dont need a new pasta maker maybe u should just hand cook it