Have you ever wanted to know how to make pasta? ...It's so much fun! (a great ice-breaker for a party).

About making pasta in general:  Noodles can be made with water - they won’t be very flavorful, unless you add flavoring of some kind. (Keep in mind that much of the flavor of additions will leach out in the cooking water.) They can be made with beaten eggs instead of water, for a fuller flavor. And if you’d like to live dangerously, a little melted butter can be added to the mixture for easy handling and a very tender result.

If you don’t have a pasta machine, roll the stiff dough out very thin on a floured board and cut it into strips of whatever width you like. (The thinner they are, the less time they take to cook.) Dry the strips on a wooden noodle rack, or on a dish cloth draped over the back of a chair. To get them dry enough to store, you might want to put them in a dehydrator, or on a tray on top of the wood stove, or on a baking sheet in a pilot-lit-only oven. Noodles can also be frozen (layer them on sheets of wax paper, then put them in a sealed freezer bag) for a good long time.