Making pasta from scratch in Italy

Rolling out pasta dough with a water bottle

Cutting and shaping spinach tortellini

Now that I'm in Italy, I've been immersing myself in the "slow food" culture and making ravioli, tortellini, and gnocchi from scratch. Making gnocchi isn't hard, but using a can and metal water bottle to roll out sheets of pasta dough for the ravioli was quite an endeavor!