Finally Peanut Noodles
I always have this problem: I plan to make something, then I decide not to cook, or a friend wants to have dinner, or Todd's home, and the recipe keeps getting pushed off until it's a week later and the vegetables are getting flabby. But I finally made the noodles with peanut sauce on Wednesday night, and it was great.
I had made the peanut sauce during a cooking frenzy over the weekend (braised pork for Sunday, meatballs for Monday and the peanut sauce). Peanut butter (I used natural, which means I should have added salt and maybe a little more honey), light soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, ginger, a scallion, honey, hot pepper sauce, and toasted sesame oil and seeds all blended until smooth. I still have lots left over.
So Wednesday night I boiled my noodles, then added the peeled, deveined large shrimp to the water 3 minutes before the noodles were finished cooking. (I spent the time the water was coming to a boil cleaning the shrimp; they're supposed to be shell-on deveined shrimp, and the back vein is gone, but they all have another big black vein down the front. Has anyone ever seen that?) I cut the snow peas in thirds and added them to the water about a minute before everything else was done. Then drained, added the peanut sauce, and ate the whole huge bowl myself (I needed comfort food; it was raining). By boiling the shrimp with the noodles the noodles tasted a little shrimpy on their own. It was good, quick and relatively cheap.
and how did it TASTE??? the saté-style dressing sounds perfect...i'll look forward to the photo, and maybe even some of your good insights into possible variations!
It was good, although I'm still on a quest for the perfect peanut sauce. We mixed all the ingredients together to take to lunch the next day, but I think it was nicer with all the ingredients separate. It seemed fresher, cleaner. I'll post the picture tonight.