Egg Drop Ramen Soup

I know the picture doesn't look like much, and if I get any comments on this post, they will be ridiculing my cooking. But this soup and a cup of tea are how I start many a cold morning. It's delicious and nutritious. As anyone can tell you, ramen is a salty, yummy, and easy to prepare soup. It just doesn't have much nutritional value. It is an excellent base for adding other stuff like meat or canned vegetables.

A single egg isn't very filling, but it's packed with nutrition. An egg has everything you need except vitamin C (So again, eating this meal, and only this meal for several months at sea, will give you scurvy). When you eat an egg, it's like eating an entire chicken from beak to tail feather. And before you get on your high horse about dietary cholesterol, saturated fat is a much more important factor in determining blood cholesterol. Eating an egg a day isn't going to kill you, like a big juicy steak and a milk shake a day might.

I once got in a heated discussion at a party with a woman about mayonnaise (As my friends and family can tell you, it's sometimes seemingly innocuous things which will set me off, while the ordinary things which start arguments, like politics and religion don't seem to affect me). This woman worked for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. This is a group of busybodies who condemn all sorts of foods as being bad for you. What sticks in my mind is when in the 90s, they got lots publicity for condemning Chinese food. How about just saying that you should eat a varied diet? I don't know anyone who eats Chinese food everyday, except maybe a billion Chinese people, and these people look pretty healthy to me. I don't see a lot of overweight Chinese people.

Anyway, the woman said that around the office they had a saying that "Mayonnaise equals death." In fact, the exact opposite is true. Mayonnaise has every vitamin and mineral you need, including vitamin C. And besides, mayonnaise is a freakin condiment. I don't know anyone who sits down with a spoon and a big jar of mayonnaise and eats the whole thing, like some people do with a pint of Ben & Jerry's. Mayonnaise, spread on a sandwich adds a lot of flavor and nutrition to that sandwich.

So that's my rant. Fire away in the comments section. Oh, and the recipe. Cook the ramen per instructions on package. Beat an egg. Slowly pour the egg into ramen while stirring the soup. The speed with which you stir the soup will determine the consistency of the egg. I'm not too particular.