I was watching a cooking show on television and they talked about shirataki noodles as a great quick meal option for the working person in the evening after a hard day’s work. Shirataki noodles don’t need cooking you buy them packaged in liquid and they just need to be heated up in boiling water for a few minutes. On the show they fried up some chicken in garlic and soy sauce with finely chopped carrot, bean sprouts and added baby spinach at the end. After a few minutes they drained the water from the shirataki noodles, poured them into the fry pan with the other ingredients and stirred them together.
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It looked yummy; I could almost smell it from where I was seated on the couch. After they had tasted their dish the chef also mentioned that shirataki noodles are high in fiber and contain no calories so two more compelling reasons to add them to your diet. I looked at the greasy pizza on the coffee table in front of me and back at the shirataki noodles on the television. I really needed to do something about my diet. Tomorrow.
The next day after work I went to the supermarket to find shirataki noodles I had been eating too much junk and felt like a healthy meal for a change. But the supermarket near my work had never heard of shirataki noodles so I just bought some chicken, garlic, soy sauce, bean sprouts, carrots, baby spinach and green beans to add to the shirataki noodles. Mmmm thinking about the yummy dish almost made my mouth water. I would take the tube to the station near me; there was another, bigger supermarket there that should have shirataki noodles so I hoisted my packages onto my shoulder and walked to the nearest station.
I had to wait thirty minutes for the train to arrive and it was packed with lots of people going home from the city. The doors of the train were barely able to close and it felt like my nose was pushed up against the cold glass of the door as the train left the station. It was raining when I reached my stop and I ran through the puddles to the supermarket and through the electric doors to the bright shopping area inside.
I looked in every aisle but I couldn’t find shirataki noodles. I asked one of the shop assistants if they knew where to buy shirataki noodles and they told me that there was an Asian grocery store two doors down that might have them. So I headed out into the rain and to the Asian grocers and there they were shirataki noodles. I bought a few packets and finally headed home with all of my groceries.
I unpacked them onto my kitchen bench, pulled out a saucepan and put it on the stove to boil for the shirataki noodles. I turned on the other burner and added a fry pan with a small amount of oil to heat up for the other ingredients. I chopped the garlic and added it to the hot pan and prepared the chicken, carrots, bean sprouts, baby spinach and soy sauce to add to the pan. The garlic was browning nicely so I added the other ingredients and it was beginning to smell very good and I couldn’t wait to taste it.
The noodles were ready so I strained the water from them and stirred them into the rest of dish and left it to sit at a low heat for a couple of minutes very proud of the meal I had prepared in only a few minutes. I think that a glass of red wine would compliment it well so I opened a bottle from the cupboard and poured myself a glass. The noodles were ready to eat and I served them into a bowl and sat down to watch my favorite cooking show while I ate.
Mmmm my food tasted as good as it smelt and much healthier than the pizza I was so used to eating after work as an easy choice. I ate every last noodle in the bowl and as they reached the judging part of the cooking show I sat back in my chair satisfied that I was the best cook that night.
