From getting your dough wrong to misjudging your filling to overcooking the pasta, it's a minefield out here. That's why you ...

Who me? Make my own ravioli? No way. Absolutely you, says cookbook author Valerie Hammacher. Her homemade butternut squash ...

Role the dough into desired shapes and sizes cannelloni, ravioli, thin noodles etc and enjoy a fresh and homemade pasta. Add water, a little at a time, to knead into a stiff dough. 3. Rest the dough, ...

An additional advantage is that you can be more creative with your dough and filling flavors when you make it from scratch.

Roll the dough into a rectangle that is about 5mm/¼in thick. Feed the pasta through a pasta machine on the widest setting. Fold and feed through again. Repeat the process four or five times.

The velvety pasta dough can also be rolled or cut into different shapes, such as linguine and tagliatelle. Jamie's Bolognese ravioli. Credit: David Loftus / Jamie Oliver Enterprises ...

A food processor or mixer to knead the dough, together with a pasta attachment to roll and cut the finished dough to size are both useful bits of kit if making pasta becomes your thing!