Food Related Topic: Noodles

Tak_the_whistler · Post by **Tak_the_whistler** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:20 am

Anyone into noodles?

http://www.nissinfoods.com/cup.htm

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:26 am

Oh dear lord. Potnoodles. The ultimate in sad bachelor junkfood!

Staple diet of impoverished students, especially the beef-flavoured variety that comes with its own sachet of ersatz tomato ketchup.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:42 am

there are varieties available at health food stores, such as Whole Foods, which are actually quite good for you and contain miso and tofu.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:49 am

http://www.fiddleforum.com/members/Mart ... 20song.mp3

The Ramen Song...

Tak_the_whistler · Post by **Tak_the_whistler** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:51 am

does anyone remember a film about a guy who survived, if I can recall correctly, a year just on McDonald's foods?

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:52 am

Tak_the_whistler wrote:does anyone remember a film about a guy who survived, if I can recall correctly, a year just on McDonald's foods?

at the end of the year, presumably he died from gherkin poisoning?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:58 am

emmline wrote:there are varieties available at health food stores, such as Whole Foods, which are actually quite good for you and contain miso and tofu.

woe is me

Tak_the_whistler · Post by **Tak_the_whistler** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:03 am

I like TV dinners also...actually love them...

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:37 am

Tak, that film is called "Supersize Me." The guy, Morgan Spurlock, eats only McD's for I think about 3 months(?) and modifies his lifestyle to reflect other "average American" habits, such as reducing his daily amount of walking.
His health and weight go to pot, but the experiment is a little extreme.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:40 pm

Um....my name is Nano, and I'm a noodleholic.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:55 pm

Noodles can be great, but not - horrors - Cup O' Noodles

We usually keep a stock of various flavors of asian instant noodles on hand for times we don't feel like cooking or want a quick snack. Though we've found a few brands we don't like at all, most of the asian brands are considerably better tasting than the US equivalents. I'm fond of "Szechuan Chef" brand, but there are many others equally good.

Hint: go for the blocks of noodles with separate spice and stock packets inside the cellophane wrapper - the flavors are much fresher.

I'll admit that we've got an advantage - we live in an area with lots of asian markets, and my wife reads Chinese.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:19 pm

Udon is the ultimate noodle for me. I like it in steaming chicken broth, with some thin-disk-sliced green onion dropped in at the last minute.

On the opposite side of the pasta divide, there's rigatoni, stuffed with a mixture of herbed ground beef and mozzarela, covered in a spicy tomato sauce, and baked as a casserole.

Dagnab it! Now I'm hungry again!

(Even when we do use ramen and such, we never use the "flavor" packets, which seem to be 98-percent salt.)

StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:36 pm

Anyone familiar with an Italian restaurant in Cleveland called Il Giardino d'Italia? Hector Boiardi, their internationally renowned chef, came up with a recipe for an exquisitively robust yet delicate Italian-style noodle that has a quality that cannot be described. A fine complement and partner to his red sauce.

Sunnywindo · Post by **Sunnywindo** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:49 pm

Martin Milner wrote:http://www.fiddleforum.com/members/Mart ... 20song.mp3

The Ramen Song...

Ummmm.... this isn't the Ramen Song I'm familiar with.

Wyobadger (a board member who used to post here) wrote a real great song about ramen noodles. Don't recall all the words off the top of my head... maybe Beth would remember.

Sara (who sadly can't get her son to eat noodles or anything like it, except for macaroni and cheese)

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:20 pm

I love noodles but I make my own. I do have a pasta machine to run the dough through. I just had pasta with a creamy garlic and shrimp sauce. I also buy pasta but I prefer the homemade. I always make my own sauces though.

Ron