We eat good and spend not much $$$ on it

My son a nd me, we eat good.
when he where little, about 2 years old or so, he already wanted to help mama cooking.
little kids love to help.
instead of thinking about how much of a pain that may be, i let him help preparing the food and we did it with fun.

we talked about food, ingredients, vitamines, helth and bad food.
kids are like sponges, they suck all this informations up and they even remember all thats stuff years later.

kneading bread, he allways got a small little portion to knead and we made one little bread for him. a breadroll. and since it where extra with the bread in the oven, he knew he did this bread and  he where allways proud like king louis.

for him it was the normalst in the world to help cooking. we learned how to handel a knife without cutting of fingers, how to not touch hot surfaces, how to hold all kitchen tools well etc.
i have to admit, that in the age of 12 he cut off a little bit from his pointer finger.
but we hadled this as a normal chapter in life and that some times things may happen, but it can be fixed...good...no big harm done and he learned a lesson.

good, we parents dont want to see our kids being injured or hurt, but to prevent everything we have to lock the kids away from life and that does not work either.
i figured out that i had way less problems with my son than seeing other parent having with their kids.
my son touched all possible danger kitchen tools, knifes and cutters and god knows what else. while other parents locked everything away and had safe guards on every door, drawer etc.
i just tought my son how tu use it and recommended him to tell me when he wants to do something, so that we can share the fun. it worked pretty well.

i just mention this, becasue i have a lots of friends, complaining how much work cooking is and what a pain what a burden what a waist time etc...
and that the husbands dont like much to help... i think it starts with us mamas, we have to train our boys how we train our girls. next generation will think its a normal thing to do all of it and the woman will finaly become equal partners ;-)

so, my little boy helped from almost the beginning of his thinking moments.
making noodles at home is a super easy thing to do. quick, super cheap and fun and kids love to ley hands on.

all you need is
flour, salt, eggs and olive oil

1 pound of flour, either normal white ones or 3/4 white and 1/4 rye flour or other flour (buckwheet or such)
1 Soup spoon of salt
4 eggs
2 Soup spoon of olive oil.

mix all together to an elastic dough.
if it is too dry, sprinkle some luke warm water on and knead more, if it is too wet, add some flour and knead it in.

roll dough in cellophan foil and let rest for about 1 hour.
roll out very thin, cut in stripes, squares or even use cookie cutters and cut out fancy shapes. let those nudles dry for 1 hour on a kitchen towel. cook in boiling water until they have a little bite still.

enjoy.

an easy sauce to home made noodles is this traditional one from sardinia.

take 1 pack of cherry tomatos, cut in half pieces. heat some olive oil, add the tomato, add some fresh basil, a little bit of fresh rosemary, galic and onion. salt and pepper, you may add some veggie stock, just a tiny bit or dry broth if you prefere.
let cook for 10 minutes. add the noodles in this sauce, mix together. but pan on the table and serve.

since this home made noodles, special if you add rye or other full flours, are richer than store bought and industrial made ones, you will be surprised, how many noodles you can get out of this recipie.
it should be good for a family of 4.
at least if you eat til you are fine and not stuffed full ;-)