Ramen!
So a week ago, I made ramen more or less from scratch. My eventual goal is to make ramen approximating the ridiculous level of deliciousness of the ramen I ate across from Keio with some regularity when I was in Tokyo.
I took a recipe for ramen from a Japanese cookbook I had, and made a few changes in how I made it based on what I remember of the contents of that ramen. For one thing, I made it miso ramen (my favorite) where the recipe in the book was just for "ramen". That worked out pretty well, though I should probably adjust the amount of soy sauce used a bit next time to account for it.
It was a fairly major cooking endeavor compared to most things I've done in the past though. I started it Thursday night, simmering chicken bones and a great many other ingredients in a lot of water for quite a while to make a stock for the soup. On Friday I had to cook the pork for 30 minutes in some water with various ingredients for flavoring it, prepare the toppings, make the soup by combining the stock with the miso, soy sauce and salt, and cook the noodles.
I really didn't know how it would come out tasting, especially considering I modified the recipe from the start. Was also kind of worried if my dad would be able to eat it, because he's extremely unadventurous when it comes to food. Fortunately, I thought it tasted quite good for my first time making it. There were enough leftovers for me to get 2 more meals out of it, and somehow it tasted even better those times.
Anyway, here's a couple of pictures I took:
I took a recipe for ramen from a Japanese cookbook I had, and made a few changes in how I made it based on what I remember of the contents of that ramen. For one thing, I made it miso ramen (my favorite) where the recipe in the book was just for "ramen". That worked out pretty well, though I should probably adjust the amount of soy sauce used a bit next time to account for it.
It was a fairly major cooking endeavor compared to most things I've done in the past though. I started it Thursday night, simmering chicken bones and a great many other ingredients in a lot of water for quite a while to make a stock for the soup. On Friday I had to cook the pork for 30 minutes in some water with various ingredients for flavoring it, prepare the toppings, make the soup by combining the stock with the miso, soy sauce and salt, and cook the noodles.
I really didn't know how it would come out tasting, especially considering I modified the recipe from the start. Was also kind of worried if my dad would be able to eat it, because he's extremely unadventurous when it comes to food. Fortunately, I thought it tasted quite good for my first time making it. There were enough leftovers for me to get 2 more meals out of it, and somehow it tasted even better those times.
Anyway, here's a couple of pictures I took: