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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
When the weather gets a little cold, I do love a nice, big comforting bowl of soup. And when I don’t have a ton of time or energy left at the end of the day, I often end up making some ramen: there’s always a sad veggie or two left in the crisper that needs to be used up, and a dollop of butter and curry paste brightens up any soup stock. Easy peasy!
When I saw this book, I figured it would make for a great source of inspiration and new ideas to pimp up my fall and winter ramen routine. I also fell in love with the format: I remember having a couple of illustrated cookbooks as a child, which were really great to teach children about basic food preparation (it certainly made it look more fun than regular cookbooks!), so the idea of blending comic books and recipes struck me as pure genius.
While this book is gorgeous and informative, I have to say it seriously lacks in vegetarian options!! While I do eat meat from time to time, it isn’t a big part of my diet or cooking preferences. There is only one vegetarian broth recipe, and while I understand that it's not strictly traditional, a few variations would have been nice. And while there are many recipes for the different meaty garnishes to add to a ramen bowl, again there are very few alternative ideas for meat-free versions included in the book… The meat-balls and marinated eggs recipes look absolutely scrumptious.
While I am not quite ready for the very time-consuming process of making my own broth, I love that the author thought to include a way to make home-made “instant” ramen broth and store it so you don’t have to spend an entire day boiling away pig trotters every time you fancy a bowl.
I'm giving this book 3 stars because despite being a very cool idea, I'm just not going to use it much. This is really more for the ramen purists, as where I'll always be the girl who uses store-bought broth and noodles when she feel like having a lazy dinner.
When I saw this book, I figured it would make for a great source of inspiration and new ideas to pimp up my fall and winter ramen routine. I also fell in love with the format: I remember having a couple of illustrated cookbooks as a child, which were really great to teach children about basic food preparation (it certainly made it look more fun than regular cookbooks!), so the idea of blending comic books and recipes struck me as pure genius.
While this book is gorgeous and informative, I have to say it seriously lacks in vegetarian options!! While I do eat meat from time to time, it isn’t a big part of my diet or cooking preferences. There is only one vegetarian broth recipe, and while I understand that it's not strictly traditional, a few variations would have been nice. And while there are many recipes for the different meaty garnishes to add to a ramen bowl, again there are very few alternative ideas for meat-free versions included in the book… The meat-balls and marinated eggs recipes look absolutely scrumptious.
While I am not quite ready for the very time-consuming process of making my own broth, I love that the author thought to include a way to make home-made “instant” ramen broth and store it so you don’t have to spend an entire day boiling away pig trotters every time you fancy a bowl.
I'm giving this book 3 stars because despite being a very cool idea, I'm just not going to use it much. This is really more for the ramen purists, as where I'll always be the girl who uses store-bought broth and noodles when she feel like having a lazy dinner.
Overview:
This cookbook isn't just any cookbook but a comic as well! Learn how to cook the vast amount of bowls of ramen from your home.
With text and illustrations Let's Make Ramen! will show you the world of ramen and the unique bowls you can make.
Thoughts:
I like graphic novels and comics. I enjoy looking at the illustrations and I just find the genres enjoyable to read.
So when I saw this cookbook was unique and actually had illustrations to show you visually how to make a recipe, I was ecstatic.
I love ramen and comics, this is perfect!
One part in this cookbook says:
And after reading this book, I agree. In the start, I thought ramen had one main recipe to follow but I was wrong, haha!
They had so much recipes in this book for ramen and how to make:
- Stocks and Broths (They even had a vegetable broth!)
- Noodles (Yes, making your own noodles!!)
- Meats (And the different types)
- Accompaniments (Meaning the food that goes along with the ramen, such as eggs, vegetables.)
I also loved the illustrations, Sarah Becan (the illustrator) made the food look so yummy and drool-worthy.
This cookbook isn't just any cookbook but a comic as well! Learn how to cook the vast amount of bowls of ramen from your home.
With text and illustrations Let's Make Ramen! will show you the world of ramen and the unique bowls you can make.
Thoughts:
I like graphic novels and comics. I enjoy looking at the illustrations and I just find the genres enjoyable to read.
So when I saw this cookbook was unique and actually had illustrations to show you visually how to make a recipe, I was ecstatic.
I love ramen and comics, this is perfect!
One part in this cookbook says:
"The world of ramen is vast"
And after reading this book, I agree. In the start, I thought ramen had one main recipe to follow but I was wrong, haha!
They had so much recipes in this book for ramen and how to make:
- Stocks and Broths (They even had a vegetable broth!)
- Noodles (Yes, making your own noodles!!)
- Meats (And the different types)
- Accompaniments (Meaning the food that goes along with the ramen, such as eggs, vegetables.)
I also loved the illustrations, Sarah Becan (the illustrator) made the food look so yummy and drool-worthy.
I love these comic book cookbooks. The graphics are so fun and make the directions and recipes come to life. This is a very thorough cookbook, featuring the history of ramen, a variety of bases, styles, techniques, and toppings. It provides a ton of options for making your own ramen! There are even interviews with various individuals with ramen experience. If you enjoy ramen, this is a fun read!
informative
inspiring
A great book that gives a lot of helpful information on how to make your own homemade ramen.
Not enough vegetarian recipes. I know that ramen is traditionally not vegetarian but they list several modern variations of ramen. Here they could have listed some vegan or vegetarian variations.
informative
fast-paced
I received this for my birthday as part of a whole ramen-making thing (another ramen cookbook, my very own set of Studio Ghibli chopsticks, and an online ramen making class). I'm glad that I started with this book.
It is very approachable. The art style is whimsical but realistic enough that everything is recognizably what it is in real life. I like, also, how each piece of the ramen beast is broken down into doable-from-your-own-kitchen parts. There are some time-consuming aspects to making ramen at home, but this book is conceived in such a way as to make each of those steps easy to understand, easy to do, and then easy to store (I have a bunch of broth in the freezer now, just waiting for noodles and toppings).
I'll be making a lot of ramen in the coming cold days.
Slurp.
It is very approachable. The art style is whimsical but realistic enough that everything is recognizably what it is in real life. I like, also, how each piece of the ramen beast is broken down into doable-from-your-own-kitchen parts. There are some time-consuming aspects to making ramen at home, but this book is conceived in such a way as to make each of those steps easy to understand, easy to do, and then easy to store (I have a bunch of broth in the freezer now, just waiting for noodles and toppings).
I'll be making a lot of ramen in the coming cold days.
Slurp.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
relaxing
medium-paced