Peanut butter with Noodles

The other day I decided to make Pad Thai. I decided this at the grocery store and felt pretty confident about what making Pad Thai would entail. I didn't want to buy the packaged stuff because the 73% sodium content kind of defeated the purpose of cooking instead of ordering take-out, but I thought it would be clever to check what the packaged sauce was made of so that I could buy it all fresh and make it myself.

From what I remember, Pad Thai sauce is made out of:

- Salt
- Sugar
- Garlic salt
- Carbon Monoxomide
- Glucose frucomaul
- Hepoteral phosphate
- Sulphur Xylophone
- sucrose meth
- more salt

I didn't have any of this stuff at home and I didn't think Safeway sold sulphur xylophone so I bought a jar of peanut butter and a lime before going home.

I looked up some recipes for thai peanut sauce and most of them went something like this:

- 1 tbs peanut butter (optional)
- 1/2 a lime (optional)
- 1 hot pepper
- soy sauce
- Hoison sauce
- 2 cloves garlic
- apple cider vinegar or white vinegar

I decided recipes are useless anyway and proceeded to combine one cup of peanut butter and 1 lime in a bowl. I added salt because even though none of the recipes mentioned salt,the folks at A Taste Of Thai definitely thought some was necessary.

Then I cooked some vegetables in a pan (carrots, broccoli,onion and mushrooms), and added in the cup of peanut butter, and some coconut milk, before proceeding to cook the rice noodles just as one would cook pasta.

Rice noodles are not pasta.

They are supposed to be soaked in a hot bowl of water prior to use. Unfortunately I read this two seconds after throwing the noodles in boiling water, decided 2 seconds in boiling water was probably equivalent to twenty minutes in warm water, and drained the noodles before mixing it with the peanut sauce.

Needless to say this recipe did not turn out as I had imagined, but this is a really nice recipe for nights when you're craving a spoonful or twenty of peanut butter. The lime really compliments the peanut butter, overcooked vegetables and totally uncooked noodles for a truly unique taste.