NOODLES!!!

One of the things I never get to have that I really love?  Noodles.  Being grain free pretty much makes them impossible.  I've tried some substitutes:  spaghetti squash, enoki mushrooms.  I have read about others: cooked bean sprouts.  Well today I received another box of food goodies in the mail: kelp noodles!

OK, I also thought they sounded kind of gross; they're raw and ready to eat and made from kelp.  I imagined dark green twisty strips that were about linguine size and tasted like fishy shoe leather (I had a bad experience with a seaweed snack once).  But the promise of noodles made me order a batch anyway.  What I received was something that was virtually indistinguishable from fine rice noodles (think ramen but translucent and of a more angel-hair gauge.)

I know you're probably thinking, "yes, but what about the icky taste?"  Well, I have a higher tolerance for odd flavors now with my odd diet, and I had put fishy shoe leather out of my mind, so I was still excited and quickly dreamed up a quick stir fry recipe.  I threw in eggs, spinach, tomatoes, chunks of leftover meat, oil, soy sauce, etc., and ended up with this:

I suppose I should have highlighted the noodles more in the photo,
but if you look at the pale, translucent strings in the center
and the bottom center of the picture, those are they!

Turns out... the noodles are perfectly noodley.  They are white, fine, and have no weird seaweedy flavor!  They barely have any flavor.  They bathe themselves in the flavors that surround them, just as they should.  I did have to put a whole lot of oil on them for them to not stick together in one massive clump, and I had to cook them for ages to convert that weird chewy/crunchy/rubbery texture to a more palatable consistency.  But I did it, and it was good, and hubby went back for seconds and thirds, so it must have been OK.  Actually it was better than OK.  It was a bowl of stir-fried noodles!

These noodles have lots of good qualities beyond being noodley.  They have zero grams of carbs (or protein or fat for that matter!!!), very little salt, and are only six flipping calories per serving!  WHAT?!?!?  They're mostly made up of water and fiber I guess.  And of course they contain the nutrients of the sea.

If you're wondering where you can get you're own kelp noodles, wonder no more!  You naturally just set a course for kelpnoodles.com in your address bar and you will arrive at the site of the Sea Tangle Noodle Company.  You'll know what to do when you get there.