… Miso Noodles & Crunchy Veg
It didn’t want to cook this one. There are a small handful of meals I’m not excited about cooking. There is one that I positively don’t want to cook. It is this one. It’s not the ingredients (I like them all … all of them). It’s the photograph. The meal, the fish specifically, looks insipid. I don’t want to cook it. And so this is the very reason I do cook it. I need to cook them all and surely it’s best if I get the ones (one) I really don’t want to cook out the way, so much the better.
I could tell that I didn’t want to cook this because I was procrastinating about starting. Doing dishes and other little jobs was much, much more important. It was well after eight before I started to cook.
The fish was prepared and in the oven within a minute or two. Then there was the noodles to cook. Lots of veg to chop. You cook (kind of cook) a lettuce. I know that to British people this is a very odd thing to do, but in some Asian cooking it is done quite a lot. I remember the first time I was served cooked lettuce and from that point on I was converted to the idea that cooking a lettuce was a good thing to do. In my opinion all an iceberg lettuce is good for is to add a bit of crunch to a homemade burger. It really doesn’t have a place in any other salad. If cooked however I have a very different view. It is transformed into something delicious.
So tonight the new Mumford and Sons record is on. I feel like I have time to dance (yes dance) along to it. And so I do.
This meal was cooked so quickly and so easily. The flavours were incredible. The fish (especially the white fish) was delicious. The noodles with the barley cooked veg/salad was fantastic.
This is one of my favourites. Yes I know I have a lot. But this is one of those that will fall in to that category of – I know I should and will cook again and again.
Perhaps the trick was that mixture of not caring and two glasses of wine, maybe . Maybe not. Either way – my best time. One of the best meals. And one to do over and over and over again.
You must try this … you really must … promise me.
Practically perfect in every way.
Who with: Gavin
How long: Eleven minutes and thirteen seconds
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