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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Okonomiyaki

okonomiyaki

okonomiyaki
We pronounce it: Japanese-style fritter.

One of the things we get along with our vegetables from the CSA is advice and recipes on how to prepare them. Every year, during greens season, a recipe that shows up on the back page of our newsletter is for Okonomiyaki, a Japanese-style fritter. We’ve not made it, not because we thought it would be bad, but because we really like having Greens Latkes (also based on our CSA recipes) as our go-to method for using up a lot of greens. Today, we figured we’d try scratchin’ out our first okonomiyaki. Oh, and if you’re wondering how to pronounce okonomiyaki, take a tip from us, and realize that it’s probably wrong.

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