I can’t seem to get warm today so I succumbed to turning on the heat at 7am this morning. I also bought some gloves just a few minutes ago (internet, why do you make it so easy to spend money??). I’m having these leftovers for lunch, to help warm me up before I have to go out to my meeting. Mark just took some ready-to-make dashi broth and mixed in soba noodles, some seaweed, spinach leaves and fishcake. Simple and something we know both girls will eat.
We turned ours on today too when we realized we culd see our breath inside!
Where do you get the ingredients for that, at a specialty store? Surely not the grocery store…
Alicia, I got many of those ingredients on a recent trip to Chinatown. The seaweed, soba and dashi I had bought before at a Japanese store – Sunrise Mart in the East Village. The spinach was actually Chinese spinach, which it turns out is Amaranth, and the fishcakes were actually frozen Cuttlefish Balls. They were really tasty!
Ahhh, yes, Sunrise. I am *obsessed* with Japanese food, I eat sushi multiple times a week, but it’s unfortunate how some of the best Japanese marts in the city are so inconveniently located. Thanks for the tip, and I might have to get some of those fish balls, too.
By the way, I was wondering if you knew the answer to this, Mark. You know udon noodles, when they serve them in broth at a restaurant? It reminds me of what you made, except not soba Do you know if they use a dashi broth like you made, or is it another kind of broth? I LOVE that stuff, and I’d love to know what it is so I can just make it plain, without the udon!