Parsleyed Noodles

These generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise.

Couldn't agree more, but I would add that I sincerely love generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, because they are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise.

This very well may be true, but have you considered that these generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise.

Why would you want to? The cooking notes are generally hilarious/ridiculous/enraging/useful or useless additions to any recipe! The best are those that "swapped out ground lamb for chocolate chips, can't eat (main ingredient) so substituted (something that has nothing whatever to do with the recipe in the first place) and then complain that it's not a great recipe. Notes = cheap entertainment for sure.

Per Mr. Claiborne's directions, it's really a three step process, as you have to (1) cook the noodles, (2) melt the butter and (3) finely chop the parsley. The Times should have made this clear by quantifying the "mise en place" and total prep times. Few of us have the luxury to make this kind of an effort on a weeknight.

1/18/2019 See @ArielDumas on Twitter. In one tweet, she released a kraken of generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise.

Forgot to mention (1) driving to market to purchase noodles, butter & parsley; (2) carrying them in from the car and adding them to my limited shelf and refrigerator space; then (3) retrieving the pans/comestibles and after following now steps 4 through 6, (7,8,9) washing, drying and returning all to their proper places in the kitchen. I do admit that these generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with a quarter cup of parsley for color/freshness, are the perfect blank canvas for something.

Agreed these freshly blank noodles, perfectly practical with just a quarter cup of parsley for generosity and freshness, are the buttery canvas for sprinkling any stew or braise. However, I found tossing all the ingredients gently (after combining) in a large serving dish with a pinch of salt, and then serving, added to the peppery taste.

These were the classic and simple side my dear and blessed Mom made to accompany seared and oven braised beefy short ribs. Yummy!

It’s true! These generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise!

I decided to take the advice of readers, below, and discovered that these generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise.

In the era of self-quarantining, it's useful to know these generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are still the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise.

Make like easy. Don't make a special trip for 1 meal. Plan a few. Each time you shop, shop for a few of them. Now you have choices every night. And since you have to retrieve, wash/dry and return your pans each time no matter what you cook, you can't in good conscience count that as three EXTRA steps. Cook and drain your noodles. Throw the butter into the hot noodles in 2-4 pieces to melt while you chop the parsley then toss all together.

However, consider this: these generously buttered noodles, sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness, are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise!

These generously buttered noodles (sprinkled with just a quarter cup of parsley for color and freshness) truly are the perfect blank canvas for practically any stew or braise!