Thursday, July 2, 2009

Dumbo in the Kitchen - #8: As-Instant-As-Can-Be Pseudo-Pasta

If you are a bachelor - or a married man temporarily rendered a bachelor because the wife is away or refuses to cook for you - and you have no cooking skill whatsoever, and you loathe to have another meal consisting of instant noodles with the invariable flavors like "chicken soup", "curry", "laksa", "vegetarian shitake mushroom", etc. etc., what can you do?

Well, the answer is still instant noodle, but with a slight twist: make it a pseudo pasta.

The only ingredients you need are:
1) One or two packs of those evil instant noodle
2) A pack of Campbell's mushroom soup powder (I like the one with cheese flavor and croutons)
3) Water (ha-ha-ha...)

First, cook the instant noodle to the consistency you like (I used to like it mushy; now I like it el dente).

Then boil some water and prepare that mushroom soup. Make it thick (which means less water than it says in the instruction).


Stir the mushroom soup into the cooked noodle (or vice versa), and voilĂ , instant noodle that tastes somewhat like a good dish of spaghetti with thick mushroom gravy.


But if you find yourself doing this dish very often, then I feel sorry for you. =.= Go get a wife, or, fetch your wife back from her mother's (say sorry, say whatever sweet lover's lies, just bring her back). Or learn real cooking.

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