If you are thinking of fun things to do at home, why not make noodles?  It is a great, short and satisfying project especially when you can directly benefit from it straight afterwards.  Can also be a romantic thing to do together if you are so inclined to spend every waking hour together (like Munchkin and Gnome).

So, this is what we did:

We took:

2 cups of wheat flour

2 cups of rice flour

and added about 1 and 1/3 cups of water to make a dough. We Kneaded it until it was smooth and uniform in consistency:

Next, we rolled it out on a board.  We used a wine bottle because it worked well and I have never seen a rolling pin for sale in Punta Gorda.

Next, we cut the the sheet of dough into strips.  This is a really neat way of doing it…you take a piece of card or wood and you cut against it to get even strips.  We picked this idea up from watching a Japanese Anime in which the characters were making noodles.

The cut noodles were transferred onto a clean dish cloth and sprinkled with flour to stop them from sticking:

With the quantities of flour, we were able to make 4 dough sheets in total.  This amount of noodles serves 4 very hungry people or 8 conservative eaters.

At this point, you can dry them to keep or freeze them fresh.  The wet noodles can be kept in the fridge for 48 hours.

To cook, place noodles in pot of boiling water and cook for 5 to 8 minutes until done.  Then, serve it with anything your heart desires…pasta sauce, stir fry, whatever you want.

We then had a hearty meal of noodles cooked with char sui and tomatoes.  Delicious and simple:

These noodles can be varied according to flour types, thickness of rolling out and size of strips.  By varying these parameters, you can achieve different tasting noodles with varying textures and degrees of bite.  We cut our noodles quite thickly so ended up with a chewy bite from the rice flour.