Last night, Buena taught me how to rejuvenate old soba noodles!

We were sitting around in the backyard, chatting, and considering whether to go our for dinner, when Buena said she had leftover soba noodles. Maybe we should have that? As it happens, I love soba, so I said that sounded good. We went inside, opened the wine (priorities), and I took the soba out of the refrigerator. Weeelll…the soba had dried out! It looked like some crazy, futuristic sculpture. For that matter, I’ll bet you that there are crazy, futuristic sculptors out there who really do work exclusively in the medium of soba (to paraphrase the Simpsons).

I said to Buena, “Maybe we should go out after all!” Indeed, Buena is always ready to go out, so we started talking about our options, when Buena finally asked why I had changed my mind about the soba. “Soba?,” I said. “What soba?” You mean this crazy, futuristic sculpture over here?

Buena said it was no problem, we’d just “rejuvenate” the noodles. “Great,” I said, “why don’t we just rejuvenate my thighs while we’re at it?” Buena told me that, no, one really can rejuvenate noodles, even if thighs are a lost cause. You just: (i) boil water; (ii) stick in the noodles for 1-2 minutes; (iii) eat and enjoy! We did it, and the noodles came out perfectly–just as they had been when first purchased from the restaurant!

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