Not too long ago a friend came by after a work party. I wasn’t sure if she was eating at the work party, so I wound up not making enough dinner for her. I felt like a monster. Perhaps this has happened to you? Someone comes by, you ask “have you eaten?” and they say no, when you were expecting the answer to be yes. This is what I make in these Times of Crisis. Emergency noodles. Everyone has their own version of these, I think. This is sort of a mix between the Woks of Life version and one of the recipes (I forget which) from All Under Heaven, plus whatever I misremember from each. If this were a cookbook I’d use measurements, but it isn’t. They’re basically sesame noodles, or… are they peanut noodles? They’re the noodles you make when you need lunch now, or have no idea what to have for dinner, or worse, when you know that if you don’t eat dinner now you’ll be hungry at ten but you’re not that hungry, and that’s just annoying. This makes an indefinite quantity of noodles. It’s usually too much, but in case of emergency better too much than not enough. I use Chinese soup noodles for this, dried white noodles, flat, usually they’re about 1/4 cm wide? idk. I try to get the kind that doesn’t have added salt, because I don’t feel like I need salt added to the noodles, but sometimes all you can find are the salt added ones, which is fine.
Emergency noodles
Emergency noodles
Emergency noodles
Not too long ago a friend came by after a work party. I wasn’t sure if she was eating at the work party, so I wound up not making enough dinner for her. I felt like a monster. Perhaps this has happened to you? Someone comes by, you ask “have you eaten?” and they say no, when you were expecting the answer to be yes. This is what I make in these Times of Crisis. Emergency noodles. Everyone has their own version of these, I think. This is sort of a mix between the Woks of Life version and one of the recipes (I forget which) from All Under Heaven, plus whatever I misremember from each. If this were a cookbook I’d use measurements, but it isn’t. They’re basically sesame noodles, or… are they peanut noodles? They’re the noodles you make when you need lunch now, or have no idea what to have for dinner, or worse, when you know that if you don’t eat dinner now you’ll be hungry at ten but you’re not that hungry, and that’s just annoying. This makes an indefinite quantity of noodles. It’s usually too much, but in case of emergency better too much than not enough. I use Chinese soup noodles for this, dried white noodles, flat, usually they’re about 1/4 cm wide? idk. I try to get the kind that doesn’t have added salt, because I don’t feel like I need salt added to the noodles, but sometimes all you can find are the salt added ones, which is fine.