Homemade Ramen, Anyone...

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For all my followers who enjoy my food posts, I wanted to share with you something I recently made with my youngest daughter. Earlier this week school closed and I set off to the grocery store to get everything I needed to make Asian Pork Ramen from scratch. That's right from scratch! You might think it's hard but it really wasn't. First thing I did was make a list of everything I wanted to get. I like to think long term when I shop so being I was making homemade ramen soup, I picked up three meats. That way I could make more later. - Pork - Chicken Stripes - Sea Food (shrimp and lobster) Next, I picked up my secret ingredients angel hair spaghetti and baking soda. I bet your wondering! Here's the secret! If you boil angel hair spaghetti in 2 tablespoons of baking soda it will taste just like Asian noodles. I also picked up soy sauce, sake, and sesame oil. All three are needed for your soup broth. This will be made from your water, you boil your pork in. Make sure to boil your pork for 1 1/2 hours. Be sure to add ginger root, garlic cloves, and green onions into the pan with your pork as it boils for seasoning. (When your pork is done, drain your liquid into another pan.) This will be the start of your soup. But before you do anything... salt your pork with sea salt. Wrap it in plastic and let it set in the frig. Mine sat for five hours then I started cooking. You can leave it for up to two days in the salt if you like. I put 6 cups of water in with my pork but because it boils for so long, I did have to add 3 more cups. If you see your water level going down add another cup because you need that liquid for your soup. Okay, so you pull out the pork. Place it on a cutting board, and add your sauce mix to your pork water. Add 4 tablespoons soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of sake, a teaspoon of salt, and a teaspoon of sesame oil. Keep it on medium heat to keep warm. In another pan, you'll need to boil your angel hair spaghetti with 2 tablespoons of baking soda. You'll need to stir this and be sure not to over cook it. The baking soda will make it overflow so watch and as soon as it starts to rise up, it's almost done. While you have the sauce warming and pasta boiling, be sure to cut up some green onions for topping and get out some bean sprouts. The other thing is you will need to boil eggs for 5 minutes. That means once it starts to boil, wait 5 minutes. Shell your eggs and cut the length of the egg.. in half. The white will be fully cooked and the inside will be a cream like yoke. Next, slice your pork... Once the noodles are done. Strain, add noodles, soup sauce (lots), then top with pork, bean sprouts, onion and two eggs. As always I have a photo for you. My daughter was so proud of herself. Happy eating!