Once you have tasted your own homemade noodles, you will be hard pressed to use store bought noodles again. It does require an investment in a pasta machine! However, with a little perseverance, you can roll out the dough between plastic wrap sheets with a rolling pin. Use a sharp knife to cut the pasta sheets into any shape - for example roll up the flour-dusted pasta sheet and slice through the roll to make very even, very long linguini or fettuccine or widen the cut to make lasagna.

• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon instant chicken bouillon or base

• 3 whole large eggs
• 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 1/4 cup water, at hand

1. Add flour to large bowl. Add bouillon and pepper and mix well.
2. Make a well in the center of the flour and add eggs.
3. Mix flour and eggs into a dough. Knead the dough to incorporate the dry flour in the bowl. Add tiny amounts of water as needed but be careful not to make the dough sticky.
4. Actively knead the dough for at least 5 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 15 minutes.
5. Fill large pot with lightly salted water and heat to boil for cooking the noodles.
6. Divide dough into 4 equal parts. To each quarter, in turn, roll out to square shape about 1/4-inch thick

   

7. Roll the dough square through the pasta machine with the rollers set to Number 1 (the widest setting). Repeat several times until dough strip passes through without resistance.
8. Fold dough over and roll through machine on setting number 1. Repeat as necessary until dough passes with out resistance.
9. Change setting to number 2. Pass dough strip through machine until it passes without resistance. Change to setting number 3 and pass dough strip through at least twice. Lightly dust rolled dough strips with flour and set aside.
10. Repeat for the remaining 3 parts of the dough ball.

    

11. For soup noodles, cut each dough stip into 4-inch lengths. Pass each 4-inch strip through the large cutting rollers (linguini size). Gather cut noodles and drop into the already prepared boiling water. Cook noodles until desired doneness - 5 to 15 minutes.