Homemade Soba Noodles

A pleasant change from plain white rice!

Well, it certainly has been a long time since we put together a new recipe. I guess it’s just a bit difficult to come up with something new and different when you’re staying in most of the time. Plus, it’s a bit more difficult to head out to find special ingredients, even if it is just a trip to the store where we normally shop. Rather than look around, we just try to grab what we need and head for the checkout. So, we rely on a lot of standard dishes that we’ve already written up; therefore, a lack of posts.

Today, we have something for you: Homemade Soba Noodles. Somewhere along the line, we picked up a package of soba noodles on sale at the store. We think they might have been approaching the “best by” date, so they were 50% off. Even so, we think that they were close to $2.00 for a 300g (10 ounce) pack. Sure, they were nicely formed, separated into three 100g bundles and all that, but it’s not as if we’re going to pay the original price of four bucks for less than a pound of noodles. We know how to make noodles, and, how much different can soba noodles be, anyway?

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Sponge Cake

spong cake

spong cake
A little knife work and some leftover Roasted Balsamic Strawberries and we have a dessert.

When we saw this recipe in My Kitchen Year, by Ruth Reichl, we were intrigued. First, because it was an old recipe, coming from Mary J. Lincoln via the Boston Cooking School magazine. We like old recipes; there’s just something fun about making a cake that your great-grandparents might have had for a celebration. It gives you a tangible connection with the past. The second reason we liked this recipe was its simplicity — only four ingredients. How can you make a cake with just four ingredients? Read on, fellow scratcher.

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