ramen!
 

breakfast, lunch and dinner to bachelors and college students everywhere, available for as low as 5 cents a package in hundreds of flavours, as long as you like salty*.

but what if you dont like salty? ramen strikes me as remarkably versatile. you could use the noodles as a bed for stir fry or other dishes. i have heard of people crumbling a dry brick up and using it as a salad topping. throw the bag of seasoned salt away! can it be used as a dessert? in a main course during a fancy meal? as a deadly weapon?

what creative uses can you come up with for this cheapest and blandest of foods? any recipes involving the brick and not the foil pouch? if you have spare foil pouches, what good are they? brainstorm, dammit!

~james

I sometimes use the pouches as a flavoring to other noodle dishes such as Hamburger Helper (Beef), chicken helper (chicken) and chinese food (everything else).

The noodles can be used for anything that calls for thin noodles including spaghetti and stir-fry.

Brian

Raman in salad is good, gives it that crunch, the only problem is it doesn't keep well. When the noodles get soggy they are awful. I've never thought of using the noodles as speghetti, I might have to try that.

I just realized I haven't eaten any ramen in nearly 3 months. My sodium levels will have probably plummeted to a healthy levels in another couple of weeks. Of course then I'll be back to school and ramen again.

I have been known to make a dish my wife has named "mad man soup". Its never the same way twice because there is no set way to make it , just improvise and experoment.
Start with a pack of ramen your fav flavor will do ,
than go searching in the fridge for goodys ( left over bbq pork chops or chicken or hell even hot dogs , then an onion and some bell pepper or celery , oh and mushrooms are good to )
Then i raid the spice cabnet , cyane , red pepper flakes , soy , teryaki (cut up your hot dogs and soak in the teryaki then get a skillet and cook then fast and hot ).
Cut up your onion and garlic and celery and what ever meat you can scrounge up , get this frying in a skillet, start your water heating , throw in a dollop of olive oil , when the water boils throw in the noodels , then all the rest , season to taste ,and when the noodles are ready , put it all in a big bowl , get a spoon and some chop sticks and chow down .
As i said this never works out the same way twice . Some have been bad , some have been truely exealant !!!!!!:D

My guideline has always been if I like everything I put in it. I'll like IT.;)

I have recently encountered a nifty pastaesque summer salad thingy that someone makes and brings to our coven Sabbat gatherings. It is made with uncooked raman noodles and lots of other stuff. The raman soaks up the oils, etc, in the mixture, and it is really, really good.

Please don't ask me what all is in it or how to make it, because it is a mystery to me, much as changing the serpentine belt on my van was today.

Now I'm a DYI type of guy but I can't believe you actually tried, those things scare me, any belt that turns more than two pulleys isn't worth messing with. Then again I guess with the proper tools......

welp
 

The right tools is simply a ratchet wrench of the proper size.
I can change mine in thirty seconds flat.

Put on the tensioner and push to loosen, then slip the belt off. GENTLY let off the tension, slip the new one on the same was as the old one came off, then retension the wrench, slip the belt over that last pulley and let it take up the slack. Presto! Instant belt change!

Brian

I like everything about ramen, bp-busting packet/powder and all. I've been having it for lunch for the past 2 weeks.

Bummer T$, I thought you were working.

I am...I just like saving $$$, for I am T-muthaphuckin $. :)

It can be alittle tricky if the old one broke and your not sure the kid at Pep Boys gave you the right one.:rolleyes: