Your mom and I just had a great weekend to help put some of the memories of the bad week behind us. And your trend of continuing adventures moves on!
As I'm sure you know, your mom and I love cooking. It's even better when it's cooking together. Hopefully, you've had a great big share of cooking adventures with us and you have quite the expansive palette when it comes to trying new foods.
This weekend, we tried out a new thing. Ramen! Now, you may know real Ramen from us. I imagine we'll be making this particular recipe for a long time to come. Hopefully, you're not too disappointed the first time you try Ramen at a friend's house and get something like this:
For, you see, Ramen is actually quite the complex Japanese dish. Your mom and I had both had some experience with it before this weekend, but we'd neither actually made the dish or even tried it at a proper Japanese restaurant.
Those little facts didn't stop us from breaking out the old interwebs to find a recipe and then get to work making it. The first two Asian markets that we stopped at didn't have the ingredients. Fortunately, as we left the second market, a nice lady had a third one to recommend to us. She was, apparently, surprised that people who looked like us were shopping at an Asian market. And her tip paid off, with me finding these hard-to-find ingredients at Lee's market:
On a side note, we may still be using those Bonito flakes when you read this. It's a ridiculously big restaurant-style wholesale bag, but the only way we could find it.
With these goodies in hand, we headed home and set to work cooking. Well, actually, your mom did most of the cooking for this one. I was busy simultaneously cooking Alton Brown's meat sauce for other uses.
In the end, she created this:
And it was delicious! But, of course, you probably already know that... because something tells me that it's going to be a fairly regular staple of your diet.
Liam, whether you like cooking or not, I hope that you will find someone to be with in your life who you share something with the way that your mom and I share cooking. No matter what it is and no matter who he or she is, it's just amazing to be able to create something special with the person you love.
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