Everybody Loves Ramen: Recipes, Stories, Games, and Fun Facts about the Noodles You Love

by Eric Hites

Book Overview

Everybody Loves Ramen is the perfect gift for a high school graduate, college student, single friend living on a tight budget, or anyone who remembers the days when a package of ramen was haute cuisine.

As a college student, Eric Hites learned just how far he could stretch a dollar by combining a package of ramen noodles with some odd ingredients out of his nearly bare kitchen cupboards and a little imagination. Living on a tight budget,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144947893X
• ISBN13: 9781449478933
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly Good Recipes

Ramen may just be the perfect food - cheap, filling, and tasty. This small cookbook includes 50 recipes that incorporate the noodles. The recipes run the gamut from soups to salads to stir-fries to a burrito. I've made several of these recipes and have been very pleasantly surprised by how good they taste; I particularly like the Pseudo Szechwan Ramen recipe. Another plus is that many of these recipes do not use the ramen seasoning packet for flavoring, which is great given its extremely high sodium content. I've always liked ramen and have often made up my own recipes by adding some veggies or cheese. However, these recipes are a step beyond anything I've ever created with ramen. The only problem is that some of the recipes call for either a relatively long list of ingredients or use an ingredient that the average person is unlikely to have on hand, such as Szechwan sauce or gorgonzola. In particular, many of these recipes would not be good for the college ramen crowd, as they're not necessarily cheap. Ignore the cutesy format, especially the lame "games," and this cookbook is a winner for ramen fans.

Simple and Good

Ignore the games. Ignore the cutsey stuff. Most especially ignore the "journal" parts. (I don't know about you, but I don't need to keep a diary of ramen moments!)All this aside, please go ahead and buy this book. The recipes are simple and good.

For a whole new generation of ramen enthusiasts

Ramen noodles has been an impoverished college student's mainstay for decades. But now, in Everybody Loves Ramen: Recipe, Stories, Games, And Fun Facts About The Noodles You Love, ramen noodle enthusiast and expert Eric Hites has compiled a wonderful collection of recipes featuring this inexpensive pasta and enhanced his specialty cookbook with thematically appropriate anecdotes, fun factoids, games, puzzles. From Stroganoff Ramen Style; Ramen Pizza Party; and Easy Cheesy Ramen; to Rootin' Tootin' Ramen Chili; Thai-One-On Ramen; and Hawaiian Chicken Ramen, a whole new generation of ramen enthusiasts will discover that this versatile and "budget-friendly" pasta can be prepared to please any palate and satisfy any appetite.