As my last update post suggests, I have become even more poor now that I quit than I thought I was before with my minimum wage job. Attempting to not spend any money, but too lazy to walk the half mile uphill in the cold and darkness ALONE to the dining hall, tonight I resigned myself to making Ramen. Remembering a post I had read online once (I’ll try to post it) I decided to add an extra ingredient.
In all honestly, I really like eating Ramen, though usually it’s a snack for me. I had never had it before coming to college and was introduced to it last year by my boyfriend. Everything I know about it/making it, I learned from him. The story of my first taste of Ramen was like this:
It was 2 in the morning on a cold February night. My boyfriend got hungry and started to make himself some Ramen, when he learned I had never had it before. Me, hearing the criticisms of how bad it is to eat Ramen every day when you are poor, refused his offer of making me my own package. Then, I tasted his and my whole life changed forever. Long story short, he wound up letting me eat the first bowl and made himself another. What a romantic!
After that I made it for myself a lot too, but never did any crazy experiments with it since I was so new to it anyway. But today I decided I would step outside of my comfort zone and add EGG to it, just for you readers.
mmmm 🙂
Here’s how I do it:
Adding Egg to Ramen
Ingredients
1 chicken Ramen package (noodles+seasoning)
1 egg
1. Start by boiling some water in a small pot. IDK how much, I used too much and ended up pouring some out before adding the egg later. As much as you want your soup to be but still enough to cook the noodles evenly? (DOES THIS SOUND COLLEGE-Y ENOUGH? AHG EATING RAMEN AND I CAN’T EVEN TELL YOU HOW I MAKE IT. HOW WILL I EVER GET A DEGREE?! MY LIFE IS A FAILURE but I digress.)
2. After the water is boiling, add in the ramen noodle chunk! Cook for 3 minutes stirring once the noodles get soft.
3. Crack an egg into the pot on top of the noodles. I don’t like runny yolks so i just stirred it all up in the pot mixing it with the noodles and everything because that’s what my boyfriend told me to do. haha
4. that’s it just pour it in a bowl and consume
so steamy and good
I get weirded out by the way the egg looks in the broth, but it tasted pretty good so I could ignore it for the most part. It definitely made it a little bit different from a typical bowl of Ramen, and added a bit of protein to an otherwise 99.9% salt dish. Now I’m chugging a can of coke and wondering when ramen and coke came to count as “dinner” at 9:30 PM. Maybe it’s the fact that there is literally nothing else in my apartment to eat and the dining hall is closed.
4 girls live here. how is this possible?
Have you ever tried something new in your Ramen? Let me know in the comments!
[9:44 PM EDIT: HERE IS THE LINK TO THE COOL RAMEN RECIPES. NOTICE THE PHOTOSET FOLLOWED BY MORE IDEAS BELOW.]
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