10 Minute Meal

Ingredients

• ramen noodles, as many packages as needed
• 1 1/2 cups water or chicken stock, per package of noodles

Options

• onion, chopped (green, red, yellow, white, pearl, sweet, leeks, chives or shallot)
• carrot (finely chopped, thinly sliced, or julienne, baby carrots work very well)
• celery (finely chopped or thinly sliced)
• mushroom (of whatever sort, thinly sliced, fresh, tinned, or dried)
• bell pepper, finely chopped (a mix of colors adds to the visual appeal)
• fresh yams or fresh sweet potato, julienne and cut to very thin bite size
• cherry tomatoes, quartered
• sausage (kielbasa, bratwurst, mettwurst, pepperoni, genoa, what have you, cut into thin bite-size bits)
• cold cuts beef (lamb, pork, ham, chicken or turkey, cut bite size)
• bacon, crumbled
• meatballs or meatloaf (crumbled or cut bite size)
• beef jerky, cut thinly across the grain
• cooked fish or shell fish, clams, oysters, mussels, crawdads, s callops, etc (fresh or tinned, anything but lobster, there are no recipes for leftover lobster, there's never any)
• cheese (of every persuasion, grated, shredded, crumbled or cut into small cubes, Ramen with green onions and)
• soy sauce, Worcestershire, tamari, hot, barbecue (I prefer Cholulla hot sauce)
• mustard, horseradish, etc. (Anything I may have missed? Check your fridge and pantry, you'll find something)
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

Directions

1. 1

   Bring the water or stock to a boil in a sauce pan.

2. 2

   Open the noodles.

3. 3

   If you like playing with long noodles leave them as is, if not break them into more manageable lengths (throw away the little 'flavor packet' of unpronounceable chemicals).

4. 4

   When pan boils, add the noodles and any options you desire and cook, covered for 3 minutes.

5. 5

   ADD ANY COOKED FISH OR SHELLFISH AFTER THE NOODLES ARE DONE TO AVOID OVERCOOKING IT.

6. 6

   Flavor with any sauce(s) you wish.

7. 7

   That's it start to table in 10 minutes.