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| In Which This Is My Last Noodle of 2019! |
Well, here we are, two days out from the end of the decade. It's been a wild year, guys!
I figured we'd round out the year with the last of our East-Meets-West noodles - a spicy Parmesan pasta! This came from another one of our Umai Crates, and we had very high hopes for it, since the last few Italian-inspired bowls had been so freakin good. This was a pretty standard setup, too, which was good, because I was already tired from putting together Christmas gifts and we made this a couple of weeks ago!
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| As you can see, it warns you that it's spicy, but it's also welcoming and cute. Very Japanese. |
It's a 3-minute bowl, so I pulled out the packets and poured in the hot water and let it sit for the full three minutes.
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| Which was just enough. If you like your pasta very soft, go for 3:30. |
Since we're al dente people, it was time to drain the pasta and add the flavor packets! I was at a loss at first as to what the green packet could have been, but that's because I don't read instructions very well, lol.
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| On the left is the tasty spicy tomato sauce in the red packet. The green packet on the right was the Parmesan cheese! |
A word from the wise: Don't fiddle with your lid too much before you drain the water, because it will detach too much, and then you'll be constantly fighting to keep the noodles in your bowl without scalding your fingers.
Overall, I'd say it was worth it, though!
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| Almost finished! Look how quickly that cheese started melting into the noodles! Seriously, there was about 50% more of that before I picked up the camera! |
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| A closeup so you can see just how good this looked... Or you would see that if the color balance wasn't bad on my phone... |
I should probably mention that we had this with some leftovers from a really great Christmas party we'd gone too earlier that week (the day before, in fact!)
Since there was a fair amount of food in the leftovers box, we picked out some of the choicest sausages and added those to our spicy Spaghetti Ramen experience!
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| 10/10 do recommend! |
In the end, the sauce was just tomato-y enough to get the tomato-ness of it, but not so much so that it overpowered the meat, noodles, and spiciness! Actually, I was unimpressed with the spice-factor at first, but it was a sneaky spice that crept up on you the more you ate it. I really like this bowl, and I thought that, while there could always have been more cheese, what we got was really nice and went well with everything.
Overall, I'd have to say that this particular fusion was not only successful, but it's something I'd buy regularly if it was available locally! Really nice.
That'll about do it for me, today, guys.
Go Enjoy Something!
FC
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