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Let me start out by saying to all of you die-hard Pho lovers out there, this is not Pho. This however, is as close as I could come to making Pho one night when I was craving noodle soup and I didn’t have the time to let the broth simmer for 4 hours and the same night that I also found out that Star Anise is far too exotic for my local super market to carry. For those of you that have no idea what Pho is, ignore my first two sentences and embrace this delicious noodle soup with ginger and clove seasoned beef broth, tender steak, noodles, cilantro, bean sprouts and, in my case, the jalapeno from hell.
Don’t worry I don’t anticipate you using a jalapeno from hell in your recipe. Ryan and I however weren’t so lucky. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while you know that I love me some spicy food and to be honest a jalapeno is usually child’s play to me. No really, I liked to snack on them when I was a kid. But all of that aside, in this instance, I took one bite of the jalapeno in my soup and my mouth was on fire. My eyes instantly began watering and no amount of water could cool it down. I even stuck my tongue out of my mouth and tried to fan it off but alas that didn’t work either. Through my watery eyes, I looked over at Ryan and he seemed to be suffering just as much as I was. His eyes were watering and he had this “How could you do this to me?” look on his face as he reached for his beer. After one gulp he was able to mutter “I think this is the jalapeno from hell.” before taking another gulp of beer. Yet despite all of this, we continued to eat this soup, jalapenos and all, until all we had left was broth, and then we drank that too. So, yea, this soup is that good.
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Stephanie
November 16, 2011 at 3:21 pmWhen do we add the 1/2 of onion that is sliced??
Kevin
February 11, 2010 at 3:49 pmThat soup looks really good. I like the use of the cinnamon.
tigerfish
February 3, 2010 at 4:01 pmI cannot miss that green chili on your noodles. Here, they pickle the green chili in vinegar and it is so good with a noodle dish like this.
Jessica
February 2, 2010 at 10:44 amlol, I got here through foodgawker just to comment about the “jalapenos from hell”. I guess I met your jalapenos’ brother, because I, too, love and can handle my spicy food…at least I thought I could until one alcohol-induced night led a group of friends and I to a late night pho place. The boyfriend downed a jalapeno “just to see what it tasted like” and proceeded to interrupt me about five times about how “haaaawt [it] was”.
Just to shut him up, I grabbed a good sized piece and about thirty seconds later, proceeded to drink almost every glass of water that was on the table, much to our companions’ surprise. lol! Yes, there are jalapenos, then there are jalapenos straight from the depths of hell!
ravnouscouple
February 1, 2010 at 10:57 amthe flavors of this soup still sounds delicious!
BNDQ8
February 1, 2010 at 7:31 ami love ur recipes..they are so nice!! this looks delicious!! there is so much to eat in this soup…yummm!!!
Curiouseats - Lissa
January 31, 2010 at 4:57 pmlooks delicious! i love Pho!
Amedy
January 30, 2010 at 3:35 pmI love this recipe I wanna try it
Jessie
January 29, 2010 at 1:15 pmoh man, that is what I call a busy soup! I need to make this one asap