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Noodle Bowls

Noodle bowls came into our repertoire a year or two ago, probably about this time of year because we're all longing for something crisp and fresh and the egg rolls (which are crisp) and the herbs (which are as fresh as it gets in February) really hit the spot. While I have a recipe card for this (note to self, it's an actual CARD in the recipe box), I follow about half of it so here's the more accurate version.  Ingredients: (all of the vegetables are optional but you'll want at least two) -- Chop these into tiny pieces one carrot one cucumber one green onion 1/3 or a red or orange pepper two bok choy leaves with stems Roughly chop these --  an handful of each: mint, parsley, cilantro, basil Mix this all together: 1 T brown sugar or cane sugar 1/2 T red chili paste 4 T of water 1 T soy sauce (for your non meat eating friends) OR  1 T of fish sauce (or a little of both if you forgot to read this recipe all the way thro...

What We Ate

I had the most frustrating experience today. I got home from work and all the after school rigmarole at 5:17 and needed to produce dinner. I made chick peas yesterday in the instant pot  (30 minutes with a teaspoon of salt) for our famous all the greens (recipe later) and was planning to make spicy chick peas - with the leftovers - and roasted veg and couscous tonight but COULD. NOT. FIND. THE. RECIPE. Since I have a New York Times Cooking subscription and felt certain that the recipe was housed there, I popped into my recipe box and searched "spicy chick peas" but the right recipe was nowhere to be found... I tried "spicy garbanzo", "spicy chickpeas", "roasted tomatoes, peppers, onion" to no avail. Nothing. I spent ten minutes trying multiple configurations of spicy and chick pea. Nothing. After abandoning the Times, I went to Google, typed in "spicy chick pea tomato pepper" and came up with EXACTLY the recipe I'd been looki...