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What's the easiest way to make pasta?

My grandmother taught me how...but they are hand made. No machines. Create a cone of flour on the table and place about 4 egg yolks inside the cone...like it was a volcano. Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, a tiny bit of salt, and then mix it with your hands. She didn't have a food processor. Today I would dump it all in my food processor with my dough blade to mix it. Then dampen your countertop and place waxed paper on it. Using about 1/2 cup of dough at a time, flour a rolling pin and roll the dough out until it is so thin you can see through it.

Then you roll up the dough like a tube, using the waxed paper to help you, and you cut it like slices of jelly roll. My grandmother was throwing the pasta directly into a pot of chicken broth, but if you wish to save it and you it later, you can dry it by looping it over dowels or wooden spoon handles. They make a special rack for this, but first time pasta makers probably don't want to deal with that.