Easy Dorm Room Meals You Can Make in a Crappy Kitchen
If I had one wish for college students, it would be that places of higher learning would allow them to keep an Instant Pot in their dorm rooms. But apparently…
Highlight Summer Produce in a Cold Ramen Salad
A pack of instant ramen noodles is a versatile food playground, and you should join me on the swings. The noodles can be pan-fried with an egg, boosted with melted…
Two Ways to Make Umeboshi, the Pickled Plum You’ll Want to Add to Everything
There are two reasons to make umeboshi, the sour pickled plums that mellow out the longer you keep them. There’s the plums themselves, but you’ll also be rewarded with umeshu,…
Ramen-Fried Eggs Are a Textural Delight
The ramen fried egg is an umami-packed breakfast full of satisfying textures, with instant ramen acting as the transformative canvas of choice. Depending on how you cook them, ramen noodles…
You Only Need Two Trader Joe’s Ingredients to Make This Quick, Cheap Noodle Bowl
Instant noodles are one of my favorite convenience foods. They’re cheap and quick to make, and you can add all sorts of stuff to them bulk them up. Instant ramen…
Three Unexpected Ways to Eat Leftover Easter Eggs
Easter eggs are safe to eat, provided you follow a few safety rules (and don’t try to eat the plastic kind). If they weren’t, my mother would be dead: When…
You Should Melt Brie Into Your Spicy Instant Ramen
Photo: Claire Lower I have been putting cheese in my instant ramen for as long as I’ve been eating instant ramen (nearly 30 years). When I was a teen, I…
Finish Your Ramen With a Drizzle of Flavor-Packed Oil
Whether you make your own noodles or doctor packets of the instant stuff, there are a seemingly endless number of ways to zhuzh your ramen. I usually bombard mine with…
11 Ways to Make Your Soup More Satisfying
Photo: Joshua Resnick (Shutterstock) Jordan Calhoun, our beloved editor-in-chief, does not consider soup to be a proper meal, at least not as it comes in the can. To bulk up…
How To Make Garlic Chilli Oil Ramen In 10 Minutes
Well, how many times have you got groceries in the hope of trying to cook a new Korean dish to sate your Korean food cravings? The reality, unfortunately, is that…