The Noodle Adventures: Shirataki is a Go

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I tried the shirataki noodles last night. They are actually really good. They come already cooked inside a bag with water. You have to strain out the water and rinse them pretty well because it is a little funky. I was expecting a raucous stench because some of the sights describing shirataki talked about how most people find the liquid to be highly unsatisfying to the nostrils. It really wasn't that bad at all. I wouldn't cook with it or anything, but I have smelled worse (husband, dog, students, the occasional changing of a...

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New Year’s Resolutions: Noodle Bowls

January 12, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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New Year's resolutions really annoy me.  It's not that I think people shouldn't make them.  Everyone should have a catalyst to get healthy.  It's the folks who join the gym.  They crowd the track, the machines, and the spin classes.  I don't think it's necessarily the fact that they made the resolution...It's the fact that they will get fed up with it by March.  All those folks who don't know which side of the track is for walking, overcrowd the spin classes (there was a waiting list of 10 people on Sunday, the most I've ever seen it) and don't...

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