Monday, September 24, 2012

Some Like it Hot





           This week on the Food Blog, the meal I’ve been perfecting for the last four years of my college career: the TOP Top Ramen Dish.
            I currently reside with three of my fraternity brothers in a quaint little duplex atop a hill, and if there is one thing we have plenty of in our humble home, it’s Top Ramen.  We have crates upon crates.  It’s the meal that happens a hell of a lot towards the end of the month, when money is scarce and a random assortment of leftovers offer themselves into the mixing pot that is the Top Ramen Meal. For this particular creation, I made very few pickups from the store.  I knew I wanted my noodles to have a Thai peanut vibe so I got a bottle of the sauce from the store along with some chow mien hard noodles (those things that look like little sticks).  The sauce just about busted my budget at five dollars and change, but remember that I live in a household of four dudes and two full sized refrigerators.  I’m going to be just fine. 
            I call my usual lovely assistant and tell her to hustle over, because this kitchen is about to blow up.  First, let’s get some meat.  I have a bag of frozen chicken breasts in the freezer that I nearly forgot existed and then, because this is America, I’ll grab some of my roommate’s bacon and get to fryin’.  As the chicken and bacon sizzle in their respective pans, I’ll scour the fridge and pantry. 
            We need some vegetables.  When it comes to my grocery shopping, there are three veggies I always have fully stocked: fresh baby spinach, bell pepper, and jale-f*#@in-peño.  What else does the body really need? 
            I chop everything up and get it in the big salad bowl, and I even throw some diced almonds in there (class it up a little).  It looks like a nice salad doesn’t it?  Well this ain't no salad recipe.  We’re moving forward.  It needs some meat and noodles.  I throw the main ingredients on top and now we just need the sauce.  I never added the artificial powder flavoring that ramen comes with; this dish was better than that. 
            The peanut sauce is one of my favorites when going for more of an Asian noodle dish, and with the jalapeños, I would get most of my fix for spiciness.
            No.  I don’t think it’s going to make me sweat yet.  It needs something else.  The one sauce that should always be used heavily with any ramen dish (or any dish in a fraternity house): Sriracha.  Yes!  The cock sauce!  Now let’s mix it all up!
            The dish is complete…and yes it makes us both sweat.  That’s when you know you’ve done something right.  With our sinuses clear and our stomachs full, we bask in the glory that was the finest Top Ramen creation I have ever made. 
The leftovers will be awesome.

2 comments:

  1. Nice well written as always Onto the questions. Do you usually make a ramen dish like you did this assignment? Or is it just usually straight ramen? If not, do you see yourself doing this dish again in the future?

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  2. Gotta have the cock sauce. This is great, and it hits close to home. It is just life to eat like this as a poor English student. Everything you did sounds delicious, and I will definitely have to try that Thai Peanut sauce. Thai sauces are the shit. My question is how was the thai peanut with Sriracha? Interesting mix to the sounds of it, but the great Cock usually goes with anything.

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