Quick Ramen Recipe!

Tastee and inexpensive, pasta and ramen recipes.

I joked with a friend of mine at college one day about ramen flavor packets literally bleaching students souls. A poor joke of course however when the funds are low Top Ramen or various other brands will be on the menu. Ditto the lowly box of pasta.

Here is my favorite Ramen recipe:

-two packs of ramen
-sesame oil
-butter or margarine
-Parmesan cheese.
-garlic or onion powder

Cook ramen on stove top, or microwave oven. It takes about 5 minutes to cook two packs of ramen in a standard microwave. Discard flavor packet, or use very sparingly as this is usually were the sodium content comes into play

Drain in colander
add to bowl
add sesame oil, about half a teaspoon
add Parmesan cheese, butter and onion or garlic powder

Mix ingredients into ramen, enjoy. I prefer my ramen dry as the broth from the flavor packet is just far to salty for my tastes. A variation is to hold the sesame oil and use peanut butter, or to drop an egg into the pot when the ramen is cooking to make egg drop ramen.

Pasta

I enjoy making pasta al fresco with veggies from the kitchen container garden. The local sav mor has 1 pd bags of pastas such as rotinis and macaroni for .80 cents so this is on the menu frequently. However a proper ragu sauce is expensive to make even when using ingredients such as pork neck bones and ground turkey instead of ground beef. So a lighter pasta recipe is called for and here is mine.






Bring 8 qt pot to a boil
add salt
add oregano oil*

In a bowl, mix Parmesan cheese, melted butter, garlic or onion powder, cayenne pepper or black pepper.

Drain pasta
Mix in poor man's Alfredo sauce
Add veggies from garden (optional)
Bread and butter is nice with this,

*oregano oil is made simply by adding last fall's left over oregano to a half gallon wine bottle and filling the bottle with olive oil and allowing it to sit for the winter. This works great for left over herbs as dried oregano and dried basil just do not do it for me. Basil oil made like this is just awesome on pasta!