“Daughter Misty is always looking out for her starving-college-student-sister Amy, and passed along the following link to 50 amazing recipes for that college student staple, Ramen Noodles,” posts Trish Gannon/Raspberries. “Includes such creations as Chicken Diablo, Tex Mex Ramen, and Shiitake chicken ramen soup.” For Misty’s long list of Top Ramen recipes, click here.
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Question: I lived on Top Ramen through college and into my bachelorhood. Occasionally, I still pine for a bowl of Top Ramen soup. I didn’t know there were a bunch of ways to serve it. What does Top Ramen mean to you? And how do you best like it served?
tarynahecker on December 17 at 2:17 p.m.
My mom cooked top ramen in cream of mushroom soup. I still love it that way, with lots of extra pepper.
scootermom on December 17 at 2:20 p.m.
I fondly remember my undergrad days as the years I ate white food. Cream of Wheat, Ramen, potatos, pasta, peanut butter sancwiches and as a special treat, plain yogurt or cottage cheese.
I enjoy having a little color in my diet now, but I still eat Ramen noodles. They really are kind of tasty. I few chopped green onions on top, and I’m good to go.
MamaJD on December 17 at 2:21 p.m.
I make a cabbage/cilantro/ramen salad that is legendary in my family.
Cabbage Boy on December 17 at 2:28 p.m.
Hey hey hey, no need to be rude.
florined on December 17 at 2:29 p.m.
Add protein by frying a scrambled egg and slicing it really thin before stirring it into cooked noodles. I also add crunch by dicing up a celery stalk and stirring it in.
lew2nl on December 17 at 2:31 p.m.
Great collection of recipe ideas.
jazzyvandal on December 17 at 2:58 p.m.
I put ramen in my stir fry. :)
KevinTaylor on December 17 at 3:27 p.m.
I remember a friend saying that ramen is the rare food where you can gain weight and die from malnutrition at the same time.
JohnA on December 17 at 4:40 p.m.
How do you best like it served?
To someone else.
mike_s on December 17 at 6:32 p.m.
I once had a neighbor lady that would give each of her kids a dry noodle chunk, uncooked and straight from the Top Ramen packet as a snack. An odd sight.
As far as recipes go, well, I’ve lived off the stuff at so many different stages of life I kind of consider myself a bit of an expert.
Best recipe ever: Simply cook a packet of the Cajun-flavored noodles, add some ketchup and a little peanut butter, crack an egg into the pan, stir with vigor, throw in some veggies if you are lucky enough to have some laying around and, there you have it, Thai-style Top Ramen Noodles.
Escapee on December 17 at 10:14 p.m.
For many years, Ramen was a Staple, back in the minimum-wage days. I cooked Ramen so many different ways, that I finally reached what’s known as Ramen-Rejectionitis, the symptoms of which are gagging in the store aisles when passing the Ramen display. Honestly, I ate so much Ramen, I musta hit some sort of Ramen-Saturation-Point.
One bright idea I had turned out to be a fluke…I tried Soy Sauce on Ramen, and boy, did that ever backfire. The closest thing to Ramen I consume is cup-o-noodles, which I limit to about once every couple of weeks, either that or I’d consume so much injected sodium, that Deer would be chasing me, trying to lick me.
But that’s too much information. Sorry ‘bout that…