Noodle Bowl!

A quick noodle bowl. This is my haphazard emergency noodles. Cook the noodles and vegetables and flavors and devour them. There is often peanut butter involved, but it doesn't have to be. You can have a decadent meal in under ten minutes. Last night I made a bowl with some marinated tofu- ginger, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, honey, and garlic. It was very good and made me very happy. Somehow a steaming bowl of noodles and vegetables warms my heart in a way that no other food can.

Noodle Bowl- If you need a more concrete recipe Here is one from Killing Thyme
Ingredients:

• Quick cookin' noodle like Ramen. There are lots of types that have corn in them. I like Ka-Me chinese noodles because the have less packaging, no flavor packet to deal with and the only ingredients are wheat flour, water, salt and calcium carbonate. I am not a commercial, just letting you know. 
• Quartered and thinly sliced watermelon radish
• Small red cabbage: Halved, halves quartered and then thinly sliced- you can use green too but the red ones make the water BLUE! Depending on the size, you may only use part of a cabbage. (Lookin for about 2 cups)
• Some roughly chopped greens- tatsoi is great in there. Really great. Kale, chard, and tokyo bekana are also solid choices. I also LOVE fresh cilantro in there. 
• Diced garlic
• Optional- additional protein- soft boiled egg, a meat, a nut, tofu- what you like.
• Flavors:
• Rice wine vinegar
• Soy sauce
• Honey
• Garlic
• Ginger (fresh or powdered)
• Miso
• Sesame oil
• Sriracha or something spicy

Directions:

1. Boil 3-4 cups of water or broth and add the radish and cabbage. If you are using a tougher green, you can add it now. 
2. Add some flavors- vinegar, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, miso, hot pepper, salt
3. Add the noodles- they only need to cook for 3 minutes.
4. If you want an egg in there, you can cook it directly in the soup- put it in close to the beginning- or cook it separately. When you cook it right in there, it usually gets a bit integrated but is still fantastic.
5. Eat it! YES, it is that easy.