Are you talking about semolina?  If you can't find it, you can make very good pasta with reg flour (or 00 flour if you can get it)  and eggs.
I use a couple of eggs to one cup of flour and stir it in mixing well and adding a bit more flour if needed.  (You don't want to get it too dry)
Then knead for about 10 minutes, cover with a bowl and let rest for 15 min. and roll it out or use the rollers on a pasta machine.
Eddie

Sainsburys stok two pasta flous, DovesFarm Organjc, and Spandoni tipo 00.

Most good quality fine cake flours will work - I've even done it with brown bread flour! And the colour comes from the egg yolks, not the flour.

Hello.......for the pasta flour thing......you are free to use normal flour because it is similar to the pasta flour.....the most important thing for a good pasta dough are eggs......fresh good home-grown eggs......their yolks are much bigger and their color is more like dark yellow so the pasta becomes beautiful too see and it tastes good because the eggs have a fantastic taste.....but try not to put too many eggs because the pasta becomes too hard then..... ....cya

Last edited by Grabar (Fri 23 Mar 07 3:57pm)

i like the sound of that tesco, i will try that at the weekend

If you can find it mix to 0 flour some durum (farina di grano duro) flour, start from eggs and according to their size you can add flour, some olive oil  (1 or 2 tbsp) a little salt and a squeeze of lemon. Let it rest covered or wrapped in film for 1/2 an hour then stretch it with rollpin or pasta machine patting it always on durum wheat flour so it doesn't stick

good luck