Our Best Ideas for Egg Noodles
We always know to throw a bag of egg noodles in the shopping cart when we’re making stroganoff, but we recommend also tossing an extra one in there to save the day some evening when you’re stumped about what to make for dinner. Where buttered pasta might read as kid food, somehow buttered egg noodles feel like more of an effort has been made (triply so when topped with a chopped fresh herb, but in a pinch, those dried chives in your spice rack will do the trick!). They are a must when your main includes any kind of gravy, but they can also step up to be part of the main dish, themselves. Once you start to imagine all the possibilities, you’ll be eager to start noodling.
Wondering where to start? The classic! If there’s a meal that buttery, herbed egg noodles don’t go with, we’d like to hear about it. This is the gateway dish for picky kids. Start with buttered noodles, plain, then next time one or two herbs might be allowed to land on them. In a few years, the kids won’t be as grumpy if a smidge of the main dish’s gravy lands on there... and next thing you know they’ll be 15 years old and eating the whole pot of the main dish and you’ll be wishing you could go back to the inexpensive-dinner years when all they ate was seven buttered noodles.