sucess wuth ramen noodle

[lauraelmore1033]

I've never had Ramen that didn't come in the package, but home made sounds sooo good! I wish my DH wasn't of the opinion that soup isn't "real" food...

[Eden]

Fresh prepared ramen noodles aren't that hard to come by here in Seattle. You can also usually find non-fried & dried ones in the freezer case too. I like to make my own dashi. It's really easy as long as you can get the bonito flakes, which again aren't hard to find around here.

[smilingcat]

tonight, I made nabeyaki udon. Noodles from scratch again and the soup base. Topping was not your standard nabeyaki thanks to my partner. She wanted bean sprouts... Tonight's nabeyaki was with chicken, broccoli, carrots, fresh shiitake mushroom, and boild egg (normally a fresh egg is cracked into the soup base but my better half wanted a boiled egg instead)

noodle takes bit of elbow grease to make. Dough is really stiff. It's just flour, water and bit of salt.

just over a cup of flour
1 tsp of salt
enough water to make the dough very stiff. (recipes on internet differ wildly and some use wayy too much salt).

once you make the noodle, boil in big pot of water for 3 to 4 minutes. Not 12 or 15 minutes some are suggesting.

Success! my partner liked it.

from my house to downtown Portland is just over 20 minutes. From my farm to downtown is about 40 minutes. The downside of not living in town.