Poll question: Noodles: how creeped out are you by them?

[Wapsie B]

I love noodles! Although there are many different varieties of pasta out there I enjoy all of them I've had so far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pasta

[KamaAina]

1. RAMEN!

[Wapsie B]

14. I love the ramen in the cups.

Super easy and quick and tasty.

[KamaAina]

20. The picture is the holy image of Pastafarianism,

the religion dedicated to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is often captioned "Touched By His Noodly Appendage".

Instead of "Amen", Pastafarians say RAMEN! :-)

[a kennedy]

2. visions of them swelling up in my throat and me dying......

:puke: but, I do love angel hair pasta with shrimp.........now that's a yummmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Wapsie B]

5. One of my favorite dishes in the world is pasta with shrimp.

Garlic, butter, and olive oil in the sauce and saute the shrimp......food for the gods.

[Dr Morbius]

3. Pasta freak.

Bucatini. Fettuccini. Spaghetti. Capellini. Farfalle. Campanelle. Conchiglie. Conchiglietti. Macaroni. Fusilli. Rotini. Lasagne. Manicotti. Ravioli. Mafalda. Orechietti. Penne. Ziti. Rigatoni. Ditali. Egg noodles. Ramen.

And I'm sure there are many more. I've cooked all these. Not big on the orechietti; too small for my liking. I like shells and rotini for creamy sauces, and prefer capellini and bucatini with marinara. Thick, meaty sauces work great with tubular pasta like ziti or penne or rigatoni. I love egg noodles (especially fine egg noodles) in soups, but many pastas work in soups.

At my house, when we're down to four pounds of pasta, we're getting low.

Here's a cool idea: go to whatever store you need to visit to buy chinese food, and look for packages of chinese ramen soups, in particular the "hot garlic" soup. This stuff is wickedly spicy, too spicy for me at any rate. Eat the ramen noodles in the package by making it with chicken or beef soup base, and use that super-spicy garlic flavor in your pasta water (instead of salt). Most of the spice will go away when you drain the pasta, and what you're left with is pasta with a little bit of zing... goes great with a light sauce. Just wonderful. And then again, they have shrimp flavored soup base out there; infusing your pasta with just a hint of shrimp flavor is awesome.

I LOVE pasta.

[Wapsie B]

7. Thanks for the tip! I'll try that sometime.

What I like to do is buy the Ronzini brand pasta, the one with the high fiber content. Really filling.

[PassingFair]

4. I love noodles....but I'm really a "rice woman"

[Wapsie B]

6. Rice A Roni is a quick easy meal at times.

I don't even add meat most of the time, although if I want I dice and saute a chicken breast, throw in some frozen mixed veggies in the mixture with box of Rice A Roni Fried Rice and I love it.

[geardaddy]

8. Dao shao mian

lit. "knife-cut noodles"

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_7G3QQPCdJTc/Sh819-103aI/AAAAAAAAn8E/pAqpEo_jcaU/Japan+-+Fish+Market,+Sumo,+%26+Indian+Dinner+005.jpg

[Wapsie B]

10. Looks good!

I'd love to try it.

[geardaddy]

12. It is.

beef soup with thick cut chewy noodles.

I'm hungry now.

:9

[unpossibles]

9. I love noodles, with rice noodles being my favorite variety

I had a stint making homemade pasta for a restaurant before I became a baker, and that was a fun gig. Pad Thai, Pad Kee Mao, or Pad See Ew are my favorite hangover helper foods, the spicier the better.

yum.

[Wapsie B]

11. I'd had Pad Thai but not the other two dishes.

But I can see where the spicy food would be good for a hangover.

[geardaddy]

13. I love Pad See Yew.

Mmmm.

[NewJeffCT]

15. Never heard of people being creeped out by noodles

Not liking maybe, but creeped out?

[Dr Morbius]

17. This is one of them "copycat" threads, in the Latin: lollus copycattus.

The original asked if people were creeped out by needles. Which makes more sense.

[NewJeffCT]

18. ah

now i get it

[frogmarch]

16. noodles are fine, but

elbow macaroni creeps me out. It reminds me of cutworms, those caterpillar wormy things. ick.

[old mark]

19. Like them, but can't eat them - too many carbs. nt

[nolabear]

21. Pho is my favorite cheap cold weather meal.

[MiddleFingerMom]

22. Pho (pronounced like the first three letters in "football"...

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...a Vietnamese beef noodle soup -- RICH, delicious, tasty and HUGE.
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Angel hair rice noodles, all sorts of different choices of beef. With
garnishes (here in Tucson) of cilantro, bean sprouts, jalapeno slices
and lots of key limes to squirt as you go along.
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One of my favorite comfort foods now.
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