Pasta

Ingredients

2 cups flour
4 eggs
1 tsp. salt

Directions

Place flour in bowl. Add salt and eggs. Stir until doughy. Knead until firm (5-10 min). Form the dough into a ball, rub with olive oil, and place in a bowl. Let sit for 1 hour.

When dough is ready, wipe off olive oil and cover with flour. You're going to need a few cups of flour ready and it's going to get all over the place, so relax.

Slice dough into quarters and cover with flour again. Run the dough through the flattening rollers of the pasta machine. Run all pieces through at setting 1 (thickest), then again at setting
3, then, finally, at setting 5, dusting with flour as needed.

Let the flattened dough rest for a while before cutting. To cut it by hand, fold dough strips in half two or three times (depending on length) and slice with a knife. You can also send the flour strips through the cutting rollers on the pasta machine, but I personally find that annoying.

Make sure the pasta is completely dry in open air before storing or it will mold. Cooked fresh takes 3-5 minutes in boiling salted water. Cooked dry takes 10-12 minutes.