Delicate though they might seem, these egg noodles are in reality rough-hewn, homey, and versatile. They’re great added to slurpy soups, served with a light sauce, or topped with a hefty, meaty stew or mushroom ragout.
Q: Is there such a thing as a red split pea, and does it look like a red split lentil? I have always used red split lentils to make soup, but recently my soup had a burnt-orange color (although the soup was not burnt).
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In times of lots of worry and little sleep, like most of us, I return to my comforts and staples: avocado toast, a great pot of meatballs, and as many ways as I can find to intersect noodles and eggs. While I am fairly certain I could live off this fiery, crunchy spaghetti pangrattato with crispy eggs for the rest of my life, as bits of spring have been in the air, I am always ready for fresh takes on cold noodles.
Flipping through Heidi Swanson’s wonderful Near & Far a few weeks ago, I became entranced with the cold soba salad in part for the ingredients but really it was the footnote at the end that stayed with me: “Serve topped with a poached egg or an omelet sliced into a whispery-thin chiffonade.” Whispery-thin chiffonade. Could anything be so lovely? I imagined the strands of eggs tangling with the strands of noodles, punctuated with a sesame-seed flecked sauce and crispy raw vegetables and I needed it in my life.
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