Asian-Palooza

I know, dumb post title. Just humor me.

Once again I have to put forth the disclaimer that I don't claim to know jack about authenticity of any type of Asian cooking. But I had seen a few recipes around I'd been wanting to try, so here goes! And I have to say that all three of these dishes ranked pretty high on the "easy to prepare" scale.

First up is this Hot and Sour Noodle Salad I saw at Living in the Kitchen with Puppies.

The boy and I really enjoyed it. I was surprised at how much of this he ate considering it's got a bit of spiciness going on. I made mine with regular thin spaghetti and thought it turned out just great. We had ours warm, but I'm sure it will be great cold tomorrow.

I think the fact that the black sesame seeds look like little bugs sitting up there just adds to its charm.

I've always been a fan of the crab rangoon. Just would like it so much more without the crab!

Here they are made to order for people like me.

The filling is nothing more than cream cheese mixed with some crushed garlic.

The recipe is at RecipeZaar.

I'm not sure why this next picture turned out so orange-y. This is even after it was auto-fixed. Oh well.

I saw this Crunchy Romaine Toss at All Recipes.

It's got crunched up ramen noodles in it that you brown in butter with some walnuts...how fun is that!

I personally liked this salad. It actually made me want to eat my broccoli. No one else in the family was too thrilled about it though.

I used one of those bags of chopped romaine and that was just the right size with a small head of broccoli.