Taste ranks pretty high up there for me too!
Years ago (in high school) a friend gave me a piece of a family favorite: noodle cake. (I had never heard of it before!)
After making fresh noodles and cooking them, they used some for noodle cake, adding milk, eggs and raisins - enough to cover the noodles... Then baking it. It's similar to bread pudding, but made with pasta instead of bread.
Recently we had some left-over pasta. Remembering that cake, I decided to give it a try.
I put the pasta in a pie plate and poured a mix of eggs and milk over it. Then I tossed in some raisins - adding no extra sugar - and baked it for about half an hour...
It did taste similar to the cake I remember! Perhaps the fresh pasta in my friend's version made the difference. Next time, I'll cut the pasta into smaller pieces.
But I really liked it!
Come to think of it, a mixture of eggs and milk is the basis of so favorite dishes... French toast, bread pudding... and now noodle cake!
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