Thursday, January 6, 2011

Sweet Potatoe Starch Noodles

Sometimes I have to say that having allergy ridden kids in a major pain in the patootie. Not only do I have to read every label of everything we buy every time we buy it, (cuz the manufacturers are always changing formulas...gggrrr!) it is darn expensive! I just don't understand why wheat makes things less expensive. There are countries all over the world who don't use wheat as their main grain. Wait, there's a thought.
So after having this great revelation and a visiting a dear friend from Okinawa, we went to the Korean Market and we bought sweet potato starch noodles. Ingredients: sweet potato starch. That's it, no preservatives, no wheat to keep noodles separate, nothing else. And were they cheep! I bought a kilo of noodles for a little more than 2 bucks. Seriously, a kilo! And they taste so good. All of my kids and my sweetheart (who hates all things gluten free) like them.
It doesn't take much to make a meal. I use a handful to make stir fry. They are good in soup. Add a little salad dressing and chicken for a quick lunch.
But most of all they are fun. Yeah, the sanguine in me always makes an appearance, cuz if life isn't fun, find something else to do. These noodles are amazing in that they don't break. You can bend these suckers backwards and they don't break. And once they are cooked they are springy. You can throw them like a fly line and they bounce back. Not that I've done that ^.^ If you don't cut them after they are cooked, then you can slurp them for days. Now that is my idea of a great wheat, egg, nitrate free product.
p.s. Don't you just love my daughters great hand model pose!

1 comment:

  1. Oh man, Rebecca, thanks for the tip. I'd never heard of these noodles before! You're making a cool blog here... I think I've read every post!

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