I never really knew how to make homemade pasta and in fact I'd always assumed you'd need a bunch of fancy equipment to do it. But it turns out that's not true at all. With a rolling pin and a lot of ...

Few things beat the convenience of dumping a package of pasta into a pot of salted, boiling water and having noodles ready to go in less than 10 minutes. Dried pasta remains a pantry staple of mine — ...

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Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Fresh pasta is preferable to dried in most cases ...