I’ve been following Shelby of The Life & Loves of Grumpy’s Honeybunch since I learned of food blogs. She makes comfort food and happens to prepare many Asian inspired dishes which are my favorite! Today is Shelby’s birthday – HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHELBY!!!
Katrina of Baking and Boys! reached out to some of us to do a round up of recipes from Shelby’s blog to celebrate her birthday and I thought it was a marvelous idea!
Since my house is in disarray with construction work being done – it would have been hard to bake during the week – so I choose to do Garlic Noodles with a Kick! for last Sunday’s dinner. I deviated slightly from the original recipe to add some cilantro because I am one of those folks that love it and I doubled the recipe for the most part. These were out of this world good – one pound of pasta and there is only a small container left for Jim’s lunch tomorrow. Andrew even gobbled them down – but kept saying “oh these are spicy but good”. I served them with some Trader Joe’s pot stickers and everyone was happy!
Garlic Noodles with a Kick
One pound of dried pasta, cooked until al dente.
3 scallions, chopped, setting aside the green part of the scallion for garnish
1 teaspoon dried chili pepper flakes (adjust to your preference)
4 garlic cloves, minced
4 tablespoons (dark) brown sugar (I used dark)
1/2 teaspoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
4 tablespoons butter
Roughly one tablespoon of chopped cilantro
Melt butter over medium heat until bubbly. Add dried chili peppers and cook for about 1 minute (be careful not to burn the butter). Add the minced garlic and scallions and saute about 1 minute, until softened. Mix together brown sugar, fish sauce, and oyster sauce. Add to butter mixture and cook for 1 minute or until sugar is dissolved (this doesn’t take long). Add pasta to the sauce and toss to mix. For some color, toss in the green part of the chopped scallions and cilantro Serve and enjoy!
As we sat down to dinner – I told Andrew and Jim that these were made for a special friend’s birthday celebration and we toasted you, Shelby. I hope you have a wonderful birthday full of love, happiness and good food!
Love,
Jenny
Thank you so much Jenny! I was very surprised and touched. Those noodles ARE the best thing!
I was talking to Grumpy about you yesterday and told him you probably lived about an hour away from where we were (in Kingston) and was telling him Andrew’s story about Dicks the good word, not the bad word. Of course, we were at Gander mountain at the time when I thought of it….so something like Dicks! 🙂 He got a good chuckle out of that! Thank you again…it feels great to have friends like you!
The garlic noodles look great! Thanks for “playing” the birthday game with me, Jenny!
Jenny that looks so yummy I can’t wait to try this recipe. Thank you for letting me in on the Birthday surprise
Love food with a KICK! These noodles look perfect. We will be having them at our house this week! This was really a fun birthday party!
These noodles sound awesome. And I have some pot stickers in the freezer. Sounds like a dinner plan to me! Thanks for letting me come to the party. It was a good time!
Aww how sweet and this garlic noodles with akick look wonderful!