SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Noodles 1, Chapter 8 (A Noodle Night)

Whatever you choose from the earlier chapters: dried noodles, stock, soy sauce, garlic and ginger, peanut butter and sesame oil for the sauces, eggs with the British Lion mark, firm tofu, cucumber, carrots, spring onions, coriander, limes, chilli oil and peanuts. For the lunchbox: a sealed box, a small lidded pot, an ice pack and a cool bag. A notebook and pen for your signature bowl.

A noodle night for 4
[ ] 400 g dried egg or wheat noodles (about 100 g per person)
[ ] 1.2 litres chicken or vegetable stock, seasoned with soy, garlic and ginger (Cooking Skills: Noodles 1, chapter 3)
[ ] 1 batch two sauces of your choice from chapter 5 (for example peanut sauce and soy-sesame sauce), made the day before
[ ] 4 soft-boiled Lion-marked eggs, peeled and halved
[ ] 200 g firm tofu, pan-fried until golden
[ ] 1 cucumber and 2 carrots, cut into matchsticks
[ ] 1 batch spring onions, a handful of coriander and 2 limes
[ ] 1 batch chilli oil and crushed peanuts, to serve

A cold noodle lunchbox plan (2 lunchboxes)
[ ] 200 g dried egg or thin wheat noodles
[ ] 1 batch sesame dressing: 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp rice vinegar, 1 tsp sugar (Cooking Skills: Noodles 1, chapter 4)
[ ] 1 carrot and 1/2 cucumber, cut into matchsticks
[ ] 2 spring onions, sliced
[ ] 1 small lidded pot for the dressing
[ ] 1 ice pack and a cool bag

Your signature bowl
[ ] 1 noodle: choose one (egg, rice, soba, handmade or instant)
[ ] 1 broth or sauce: choose one (a stock, miso, peanut sauce, chilli oil)
[ ] 1 protein: choose one (egg, tofu, cooked chicken)
[ ] 2 vegetables: choose two
[ ] 1 finish: choose one (spring onion, lime, sesame, herbs)
[ ] 1 notebook and pen

For the experiments
[ ] Extra peanut sauce ingredients and ginger sauce ingredients