MSG may make your heart flutter with Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.........but it makes things taste good.
Oh, my goodness, butter, Maggi, Parmesan, and parsley on noodles is the best!
Buttered noodles......of any kind.....THE perfect nursery food;
and yes....the best blank canvas out there. Unfortunately, now that I'm no longer a child....I've had to give up those things of a child. But, every now and then......
5
This recipe is very high in sodium and saturated fat. I think a warning would be appropriate.
2
@David Considering the title includes "generously buttered", I think this goes without saying
18
Luckily, we have you.
10
MSG, Melissa, is directly linked with migraine. https://migraine.com/blog/msg-untangling-this-hidden-migraine-trigger/ Do your homework. I don't have to read articles to know this. If I eat food with MSG - sometimes unknowingly - I, within hours see the migraine aura developing, followed by the headache. Please do more thorough research on this reality, and write a correction.
12
@Mary Sojourner
This is true of me also. I always ask a restaurant if their recipes use MSG. If they say 'No' then I tend to believe them until I begin getting the aura that precedes the migraine by 30 minutes. Other than the aura and then the migraine that usually lasts 1-3 days I have no other adverse effects. I also will never eat at the culprit restaurant again. This has been true for me since my early teens and not changed at all up to now, I'm 69.
6
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870486/
Please check your facts.
4
@Mary Sojourner
I agree with your comment. I feel absolutely awful after consuming it.
7
Sounds delicious, but that cover photo of chopsticks was clearly shot by someone who has never eaten correctly with chopsticks.
10
good catch Lynn
1
@ Lynn NYC
An excellent observation. I am admirer of the samurai catching flies with hashi (chopsticks) on their kimono or in rice bowl, but I cannot imagine how could one roll the noodles around the separate chopsticks with the movements of one hand holding them.
For plant-based eaters, what would you substitute the butter for?
@Lori Grey Earth Balance or Miyoko's vegan butter
@Lori Grey
Grass clippings?
4
These generously buttered noodles, which are not sprinkled with a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are not the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise.
15
@ Jonathan Buffalo
My main reservation about the noodles, either flat or cylindrical, is a difficulty in transporting them from the plate to the mouth. I used to love to fry gently in butter 3-feet-long macaroni, hold each string high above the mouth, and bite off one piece after the another.
I have never seen noodles rolled around the chopsticks, as on the photo at the head of the article, in any historical samurai movie.
1
@Jonathan
Upon seeing the title of this recipe, I wondered if these generously buttered noodles, which are not sprinkled with a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, would be the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise. Like you, Jonathan, I have concluded they are not.
They look pretty good though.
8
@Tuvw Xyz
I have always felt the same way because I never mastered the art and skill of rolling long pasta inside a spoon with a fork. That is why I always cut my pasta with a knife before I eat it. I realize that practice could be considered barbarian by many, but it works for me, especially when I'm hungry.
2