All you need is an egg and one cup of flour. I kid you not. I'm going to go over what we did, starting with sauce. Now, we have a lot of canned foods stocked up. Either my parents or his parents gave us this stuff a bit ago. I also have a lot of dried spices, and I try to always have onions and garlic on hand at all time. I'm Italian, what can I say?
This is what we used for the sauce (plus onion, I forgot to include it in the photo). We drained the petite cut tomatoes for a thicker sauce (feel free to make a less thick sauce by not draining them. It's up to you!) We filled a saucepan with the petite cut tomatoes, one can of tomato sauce, minced garlic, salt, pepper, basil, oregano, thyme, and Italian seasoning. Leave over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Now if you want meat sauce, brown some ground beef in a skillet. You don't need to do this, but we had some frozen ground beef that we needed to use so we opted for it.
Our sauce and meat.
As soon as the meat is browned add it to the sauce. Continue to stir occasionally. Now, onto the noodles!
Add one egg to one cup of flour.
Whisk together.
Now, it should look flakey. But it should do this when pressed together:
We lack a rolling pin, so we used an empty wine bottle. Of course, if you have a rolling pin, use that.
Woo, wine rolling pin!
Flatten out out the best you can. We ran into an issue where our mixture fell apart WAY too easily. So we added one more egg and a little bit more flour. If you don't get this issue, awesome. But it is fixable by adding another egg and aout a half cup more flour.
Once you get it rolled out flat enough, cut strips into noodle shapes.
A word of warning: we learned that if you don't flatten it out enough and cut small strips, your noodles will get huge. This seems a fairly obvious fact but we didn't think of it and had huge noodles. You'll see at the end of this post :)
Add your noodles to boiling water with some olive oil.
Let cook.
Taste your sauce. Resist eating it like chili.
Your noodles should be done when they are limp, like this:
Strain and place into a medium/largee bowl.
Add your sauce and mix to coat. You can do this in separate bowls if you want. It is up to you!
Looks like zombie food...
Justin added feta to his. I added a ripped up square of swiss.
It was very good! The noodles were huge, like I said before, which overwhelmed me a bit. But it was warm and filling which left us satisfied. And we have leftovers! Money spent: $0.00.
So there you have it. You can easily make a good, basic pasta dish with things you have in your own home. And you don't really need one of those crank things to do it!
