Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling "101" series: 101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles.
Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? How about recipes like: Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, Summer Garden Soup, Zucchini Salad, Creamy Beef and Broccoli Noodles, Ramen Burgers, Chicken Alfredo, Pork Chop Ramen, Tuna Noodle Casserole, Beer Noodles (the ultimate college crowd pleaser!), Chinese Veggie Noodles, and Corny Cheese Noodles.
This almost felt like a joke. There is a restaurant near me that serves really good coleslaw that has raw ramen noodles in it, I was hoping for some interesting ideas like that. This was merely a collection of very very basic recipes with ramen noodles substituted for what you would actually use. Gosh, ground beef, spaghetti sauce and ramen noodles make...Ramen Noodle Spaghetti! Pour alfredo sauce on ramen noodles for Ramen noodle Alfredo! Add ramen noodles to a can of tomato soup for Tomato Soup with Ramen Noodles! Pizza sauce, mozzerella and pepperoni chunks make....Pizza Ramen Noodles! In other words, take any cookbook you already have, add ramen noodles to the ingredient list of any recipe, and you don't need to bother with this.
This book had over 4 stars on Amazon and the Kindle edition was less than $4 but I can't recommend it. Of all the recipes in the book I think there was maybe 6 I would be willing to try. There is little description or background in this book. The recipe format is basic; a list of ingredients and simple instructions. There are almost no pictures in the book. In this digital age, cookbooks should show what the dishes should look like.
For college students or those just out of college, or for ramen fans, this brief cookbook details the many, many things you can do with ramen noodles if you are so inclined. Many of the recipes are variations on the same thing: ramen with vegetables in it, ramen with pasta sauce, ramen with chunks of meat or fish. But ramen with chocolate sauce as a dessert? I don't think so.
This way a fantastic book find! I found several recipes I want to try. It was interesting to find so many ways to use top ramon noodles 🍜. I could live on them. I could add to their book by five at !East recipes.
OMG! This brings back memories from my youth. Most people think of Ramen noodles as something college kids eat when they’re studying for their exams. This book puts that idea firmly in the past. I’m looking forward to trying a few of these recipes.
it just looked to me like every recipe was simply an ever so *slight* variation of another. this one has cream of chicken soup, that one has cream of mushroom soup. this one has mixed vegetables added instead of carrots and peas and green beans. this one has cornstarch added to thicken it. that one has cheddar cheese added. i think the whole book could be slimmed down to a one page list of suggestions of things to add to ramen rather than 120 pages. i just wasnt impressed.
The 101 Things to Do Cookbook Series makes a great gift for the beginning cook. Each one contains quick, easy and impressive dishes to make. Great step by step instructions, which is very helpful because there are no pictures. At the beginning are helpful hints, which is almost the best part of the cookbook.
Once I try one or two of these recipes, the star-score may go up. But just looking through the recipes, I can't help wondering, "Can that really taste good?"
But I do like ramen, and they're cheap and always in my cupboard. So why not try one or two of these?
I bought this book because Ramen is cheap. I thought hey, okay if I can get some cheap meals out of this once and while we'll be able to bring down our monthly grocery bill. WRONG. I tried about two recipes out of the book before my husband made me swear I wasn't going to cook from it anymore.
This is a good cookbook if you have no other cookbooks at all. It is a bunch of basic recepies with ramen added in. I've tried several of them and they are tasty, but the suggested portion sizes are huge. Interesting idea... won't use that often.
I just don't like ramen noodles that much. :) I imagine that most of these recipes have a very high sodium level because of the seasoning packets from the ramen noodles.
Not traditional in the sense of a list of ingredients. Each recipe is only a few sentences. More like hey, I have all these packs of Ramen noodles what should I do to dress them up?