Sassy's New Culinary Adventures 2013 ~ Week 4 ~ Homemade Egg Noodles

Homemade egg noodles ~ No fancy pasta machines for Sassy!  But noodles sounded easy enough to make without a machine, and I had everything I needed on hand.  Eggs, flour, my Mother's rolling pin, breadboard and pastry wheel.

I worked 4 large eggs into 2 cups of flour, and then kneaded the dough until smooth, which took quite a while and takes more effort to knead than yeast dough.

After separating the dough into two parts and allowing it to rest an hour, I rolled it out as thinly as possible.  The dough is quite elastic, so I really had to press down the rolling pin.  I used the pastry wheel to cut the noodles. 

I browned a pound of ground beef and half a pound of sliced mushrooms.  Added 3 cups chopped tomatoes, 1 cup sweet corn, and about 2 cups of vegetables and juice which I had leftover from braising pork shanks.  Brought all to a boil, and then added the noodles.  Simmered until noodles were cooked.

How did I like the noodles?  I realllllly wanted to luv these noodles.  Made from scratch, just 2 ingredients, fun to make, economical, quick to cook.  Yep, I really wanted to luv homemade egg noodles.  But I don't.  I truly prefer store-bought dry noodles.  Life is too short to make and eat something I don't like.

I used an knife to cut the remaining noodle dough thin, put them into a ziplock bag and into freezer.  Someday, I will use them for homemade chicken noodle soup.

LINK to Homemade Pasta page at The Pioneer Woman website.

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