So, apparently I’ve expanded Saturday from just catch-up-on-sleep day to include ‘make all sorts of foods’ day. (But I would be blissfully happy eating popcorn every time I was conscious.)
Last week I made that strawberry pretzel salad and some Salad Olivier (subject of a future post). Today it was Clean Out The Fridge Soup, using up vegetables and chicken broth, and I gave making homemade noodles a second try.
No photos of the process, but I think I did it better this time, using the ‘make a well in a pile of flour and pour egg into the well and good luck not getting it all over the counter’ method. I kneaded it within an inch of its life, let it rest for while, then rolled it crazy thin. (I only used half of an egg, so it was just a little bit of dough. I was surprised that it made enough to cover the cutting board.)
The verdict? Thin rolling = better noodles.
Also, popcorn > noodles.
Lauren's dad says
What kind of chicken lays half eggs?
Lauren says
A very uncomfortable one.
Brad says
Ha! I like your last quote. But I don’t like popcorn very much. I much prefer crackers. A sleeve of Club crackers and Pepsi makes an excellent dinner. Mmm…
Lloyd says
Taking the soup made with the noodles and random contents of fridge, slopping some on top of crackers and putting them in your mouth is also a good dinner.
Kristi says
Popcorn -- lots of it.
Jill says
I should send Tony over for noodle making. The only noodles I’ve ever eaten that are better than his are his mother’s. Fantastic. I think the secret to his (and his mom’s) is the crazy amounts of flour used in the rolling out process. Plus, the extra flour thickens the soup a little. Perfection.
Keren Lowell says
So apparently the big secret to making good soup is to cook the onion until it is not just transparent, but invisible. Then you do the soup the regular way, and at the end, add something acidic. I thought ‘whatever’, until I ate some soup that had been made this way.
Lauren says
That is funny, because I actually painstakingly took all the onion out of this soup and re-cooked it in a little pan before adding it back. (I had tasted it and it was too crunchy.)
My acidic splash? Italian dressing, of course. 🙂
Hey, as an iPhone owner, I just found out you need to reset your alarms, if you use the alarm function. (It’s a glitch.)
Brad says
You have an iPhone?!?
Lauren says
No, they won’t let me own one. “Bad for the company image” or some such nonsense. My sister has an iPhone. I’m a bad typist.