Prepare the pepper pasta using the ingredients and quantities listed, placing the ground pepper in the flour well together with the eggs and salt. Following directions further below.

If using fresh tomatoes, cut them into pieces.
Place fresh or canned tomatoes, garlic, and oil in a med. sized pan, and cook over med. heat for 15 min. Taste for salt and pepper.

Pass the contents of the pan through a food mill, using the disc with the smallest holes, into a medium-sized crockery or glass bowl.

Return the strained tomatoes to the saucepan and reduce the sauce over low heat for 5 minutes.

Bring a large pot of cold water to a boil. Add coarse salt to taste, add the pasta, and cook for 1 to 3 minutes depending on dryness. When the pasta is ready, drain and transfer it to a warmed serving dish, pour the sauce over the top, and sprinkle with the parsley.

Toss very well and serve immediately. No cheese should be served with this

Basic technique for making fresh pasta
Place the flour in mound on a pasta board. Use a fork to make a well in the centre.
Put the eggs, and other ingredients specified in the well.
With a fork, first mix together the eggs and other ingredients.

Begin to incorporate the four from the inner rim of the wall, always incorporating fresh flour from the lower part, pushing it under the dough that is forming to keep it from sticking to the board. Remove pieces of dough attached to the fork.

Put the pieces of the dough together with your hands.
Scrape the board with a pastry scraper, gathering together all the unincorporated flour as well as the pieces of dough coated with flour.

Place this flour with the pieces of dough in a sifter. Resting the sifter on the board and using one hand, "clean" the board by moving the sifter back and forth. The globules of dough will remain in the screen and not filter through. Discard them because, being already coated with flour, they will not integrate into the wet dough and will cause lumps, which will make holes when the dough is stretched.

Start kneading the dough using the palm of one hand and folding the dough over with the other hand, absorbing the leftover flour from the board. Do not sprinkle the flour over the dough.

Continue kneading, for a bout 5 minutes, absorbing the flour until the dough is no longer wet and all but 4 or 5 tablespoons have been incorporated (the remaining flour will be used for a second kneading of the dough).

If you intend to stretch the dough by machine, knead for only 2-3 minutes. The amount of flour left over will remain about the same.

A ball of elastic and smooth dough should be the result of kneading the dough for this length of time.

You can now do the additional kneading or stretching of the dough either by hand or with a pasta machine.

 

Stretch the sheet to about 1/16 inch thick – on the pasta machine, take it to the next to last setting, and cut it into tagliatelle (Roll up the sheet and slice into 1/4" strips. Unroll the pasta to dry).

 

Let the tagliatelle rest on cotton towels until needed.

Compliments to Chef Sid!