Just Ramen & Kimchi

Sometimes, there is nothing so delicious as a piping hot bowl of really good instant ramen sprinkled with nothing but green onions and freshly cracked black pepper with a side of kimchi that's just begun to ripen.

Luckily, when you work at home, you can indulge in that kind of thing for lunch.

Sapporo Ichiban Original is my favorite ramen from a packet, and you may not know this, but it matters if your instant ramen is fresh. If you buy your ramen from a place that doesn't sell much of it, and the oil on the noodles has gone rancid, it can really spoil the flavor. It won't taste awful, and it probably won't make you sick, but it'll taste off and wrong - kinda like roasted peanuts that have been sitting in the pantry a little too long.

I've put one jar of the kimchi I made on Saturday in the fridge to keep it at this stage of ripeness. The other jar will be left in the garage to ripen another 2 or 3 days so it'll be nice and sour for the Monsters who prefer it that way.

And now off to drink lots of lemon water to flush some of this salt from my system. >.<

shinae