With these expert tips you'll be whipping up fresh pasta at your next dinner party with time to spare. The dough for this ...

And while the pasta shapes we recommend are less common than the basic ones you should swap them for, most of them are still relatively easy to find, either in grocery stores, specialty stores ...

After finding success with cascatelli — the newly concocted pasta shape from podcaster Dan Pashman ... I bought a jar of Rao's tomato basil sauce for a simple dish, and I got a single sausage ...