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Just got a call from my sister. "Hey Frankie, what do you need to make stir fry? Because Jasmine wants to have that for supper next time you babysit." Awesome. Maybe I am having some positive effect. She also wants to eat my Thai peanut noodle dish, and some ready-made Indian food that I'd previously fed her. Sounds like she's on a big exotic food
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Originally I boiled up rice noodles, but eventually I realized I liked spaghetti better in the dish, so while it makes me feel a little dirty, I used that instead.
Onto the cooked noodles, I dump LeeAnn Chin's Thai Peanut Sauce. I haven't figured out how to make a sauce that tastes as good as this does out of the bottle, and I don't really like any other similar product that I've tried. Probably because I don't like the taste of soy sauce.
Onto this I add some chopped cucumber. (Coins cut into three lines seems to work good.) Then some chopped up cilantro, and sprinkle with crushed, salted peanuts.
I squeeze the juice of a quarter lime onto it, and draw a circle along the edge of the bowl in Sri Racha. Sometimes if it's handy, I add a little chopped, raw hot pepper. Red is best because red is a nicer color than green.
It's pretty quick and simple to cook, even in single servings. It's meat free, but still satisfying for an omnivore. (Maybe the sauce has fish sauce in it but who cares? Fish are stupid.) It has some plants, and it's nice and spicy.
Oh, I should mention again that it's spicy. I often forget that people have very different levels of sensitivity. If I could detect heat in a dish, it was almost too hot for Marissa to eat. She found the peanut sauce too hot on its own, whereas I like to eat hard boiled eggs with Sri Racha as dipping sauce.
It would be a good summer dish but unfortunately it's lately it's too hot to boil noodles in the house.
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