I normally start with hot sauce, butter, and mustard in mine.
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Putting boiling water in it for once instead of eating it dry :3
It’s so hard to swallow the boiling water though, my throat keeps burning.
Look at Mr Fancy-pants here…
Do you have a recipe? Not all of us are gourmet shefs here
Step 1. Boil water
What am I, a chemist?
Clarification: This jar says “Jam.” Is water?
Step 1: Put water in the kettle
Step 2: Click the little button
Step 3: Open your noodles, and put them in the bowl, along with the spices, vegetables and oil
Step 4: Once the kettle turns off pour the water onto the noodles till it covers about half
Step 5: Put a plate over the bowl and wait about 4 minutes
I didn’t do step one, so at step 4 fire came out instead of water. Why do my noodles taste weird?
we called plain dry ramen “food brick”
lol man that brings me back! it was ok for some flavors. put the flavor packet into the package, give it a shake and crunch crunch
being 20 something in the 1990s was fun
You probably don’t have raw sewage coming out of your pipes ala Michigan. Fancy!
Had sand come out once :3… that’s on me for not checking the filters in ages tho
Now thats a game changer!
If I’m trying to make it a real meal whatever veg / seafood / meat I might have around. But my lazy addition is a spoonful of crunchy peanut butter (and usually some extra spice) makes it feel more nutritious creamier and kinda like satay.
See, people think that me using butter is weird, but peanut butter sounds atrocious to me and multiple people have suggested it.
Peanut butter + sriracha + a bit of lime juice for “pad thai” works well.
You should try it! Personally, I don’t find butter weird (I think it’s just people don’t think of it as an ‘Asian’ ingredient) but I was shocked by the mayo. But a couple of folks mentioned it, so I’m going to try!
And thanks for this post BTW, I’m a bachelor again for a week while my partner is away, so I’ll defintely be cracking out the ramen. And now I can pretend I’m experimenting, rather than just being lazy!
Hot sauce and a soft boiled egg
Chili crisp is a game changer for me. And i chop and freeze cilantro in an ice cube tray, so I have fresh cilantro to throw in at the very end. I’m going to start doing that with spring onions too, because I never use them all before they go bad.
Yep. Egg + sriracha for me.
Haha was gonna type this exactly
Also a good option is a hard boiled egg that has been marinated in soy sauce.
Frozen veggies so I feel like it’s a real meal.
Fire-roasted corn is a fave, then usually peas and carrots, and the weird one I found: frozen okra. It seemed wrong but I had some on hand and figured why not? Turns out I like it a lot! It also thickens the broth just a bit in a good way.
okra is totally underrated.
My parents briefly hired a private chef. She used (frozen) okra in ways I never expected and it’s what made me always keep a bag on hand.
The best was oven-roasted veggies with beets and asparagus (fresh) plus okra and fire-roasted corn (frozen). Nothing else, not even seasoning, and it was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten.
She also used it in salads! I questioned it until I tried it, and then I was sold.
Make the ramen as normal but once the noods are cooked crack an egg, add some mayo, then stir it all up. It adds great flavor and makes the meal more filling.
I’m guilty of throwing a drizzle of mayo on top of the Ramen right before serving. That and toss on some sesame seeds. Amazing.
….butter??? In ramen???
You only need a little. Fat disperses flavor.
Yeah, but sesame oil is customary.
Yeah! And most ramen base is park, so maybe lard? Except idk what lard taste like straight lol
Yes. Not a whole bunch but it makes it like a creamy texture. Idk I been eating it that way since I was a kid. The mustard normally trips people out too, but when they try it they say its good.
Boil tea and using that to cook the noodles. Poach one or two eggs with the noodles. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Fried spam.
- crack an egg into it.
- add some curry paste.
- add fresh green onions.
A soft boiled egg and some kimchi.
Sliced up fish cake or sausage, seaweed snacks and pickled mustard greens are my go to. When I want something spicy, and I usually do, I grab a block of hot pot seasoning I keep in the freezer and cut off a piece to melt in the broth.
Sauces, Sauces and more sauces. I never user the flavor packet (Or just use a little bit) and add my own sauces. Soy sauce, fish sauce, hoisin, oyster sauce, miso etc. They are just sitting there ready to be used to make it delicious
First of all, I never use that flavor packet. It’s a ridiculous amount of sodium.
To keep it quick and easy, I’d use garlic powder and/or chili flakes.
Edit: pepper, too. Pepper mills are inexpensive, and fresh ground pepper is MUCH better.
Sprinkle some nori rice seasoning.
Defiant jazz
Sun Ra for some extra funky jazz
Chop up a spring onion and chuck that in with some toasted sesame seeds.
For a bit more effort I’ll chuck in some frozen stir fry veg when I’m cooking it. Sometimes I do an egg too
