The noodle cookbook - Judy Ridgway

Like pasta, noodles are a versatile food. They are quick, cheap and go with savoury, spicy and even sweet sources. They come in a variety of styles - hearty wholewheat noodles, broad rice sticks, the familiar Chinese noodles and the delicate Vietnamese angel-hair vermicelli - all of which are now increasingly available in most shops. They can be served in soup - as in Grandma's American chicken noodle soup or the delicately spiced and fragrant Japanese noodle broth; fried - whether heaped with mounds of stir-fried vegetables or fiery with spices and seafood, as in Singapore fried noodles; or stuffed - Chinese won ton and Middle European stuffed noodles are equally easy and delicious to make.;"The Noodle Cookbook" concentrates solely on noodles, so the reader no longer needs to leaf through three or four books on regional cooking to find a suitable recipe. It provides ideas for anyone on a budget, and for lovers of Eastern food who find most recipes too intimidating for beginners. And for those in a hurry, most of the recipes in this book are ready to eat in ten minutes or less.