Peep Noodle Soup

With a pair of scissors, cut 8 Peeps into small pieces and dehydrate for 3 days on high power until the pieces are hard and dry. Alternately leave in a dry place for about a year. Then grind the peeps in a coffee grinder into a fine yellow powder. Add an equal volume of flour and an egg and mix into a firm dough. Add more flour if necessary. Roll this out into a thin sheet and cut into ribbons. Boil the noodles for about one minute and rinse with cold water, set aside.

Melt two peeps into a slightly sweet sugar/water solution. Add a drop of maraschino cherry syrup. Keep warm.

Arrange the noodles in a bowl with a fresh peep or two on top. Pour the syrup over the peep so he looks hot and sweaty. Add colored sprinkles. Or whatever decorative candy you like.

Garnish with a maraschino cherry, but not a good one, like Amarena, Luxardo, Fabbri.

P.S. This is NOT in the forthcoming book!

Asparagus Noodles

It might as well be spring! The asparagus were cut and dehydrated then ground and mixed with egg and flour. Quite delicious, especially paired with sweet corn noodles made the same way. It is served in a concentrated fish/dashi stock with some home dried cod, or stockfish really, a barely cooked egg, blanched asparagus and tomato.

Just  note the noodle soup book is done, so nothing that appears here will be in the book. I guess I could have gone on writing it forever, but glad I'm not!

Noodle Soup: Recipes, Techniques, Obsession

After months of haggling, I finally have a title! I like it. Simple, to the point, and no misleading obscurities such as you often find in academic titles. "She Slurps Forth: The Poststructural Hermeneutics of Lacanian Noodling In Situ" or how about "Under the Broth: A Prolegomenon the Future Metaphysics of Noodle Hegemony"