Bold Basil

thai basilThai basil is one of my favorite fresh herbs… The aroma, the punch of flavor and layer of taste it adds to dishes is divine!

A quick way to add some flavor to your ramen is to add a handful of fresh Thai basil leaves just before serving. It’ll really add a nice layer of flavor to a generally bland dish. Add veggies, sriracha or sambal and your ramen will be rockin’!

The beautiful, bold flavor of fresh basil… A little bit of summer sunshine to add to winter recipes.

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Restaurant Review: Tosh’s Ramen – SLC

tosh ramenRestaurant Review: Tosh’s Ramen in SLC ⭐⭐⭐

Dishes:
Vegetarian Ramen with vegan yam noodles (3/5 ⭐)
Vegetables included baby bok choy, two different mushrooms, bean sprouts and green onions – the best was the marinated shiitake mushroom. Vegetable broth was pretty robust for vegetable broth. The yam noodles were the weird chewy kind and not enough. Definitely not enough food to be a complete meal on its own.

Vegetarian Gyoza (3/5 ⭐)
More of a pot sticker, the gyozas were filled with diced cabbage and onions. Pan fried too much for my liking and making it difficult to bite in half. The dipping sauce was a tart garlic soy sauce very strong flavor.

Vegan: 👍
Vegetarian: 👍
Meat lover: 👍
Gluten free: 👎
Family friendly: 👎
👎High chair missing clips to actually keep toddler in seat
👎Foul language rock music
Hubby: 👍 Enjoyed the spicy pork ramen
Return: Yes. I will have them custom make ramen #soup next time. No toddler either.

Restaurant Review: Osaka Sushi

15048052_1253214634749990_1953915347484540928_nCelebrating a work success so out we go to dinner, a rare occasion these days for our little family. The Ramen Soup 🍜was easily the best dish of the night! Although the sushi 🍣 was welcomed because I rarely have it anymore. The Naruto roll had a lovely light sweet sauce, the Avocado Bomb filled with spicy fish was quite the mouthful, stay away from the Tornado because way too greasy with fried roll – although the pile of fried noodles in the middle was impressive!