Vegetable soup with noodles

1 cup carrots, diced
1/2 cup celery, diced
1/4 cup tomatoes, chopped
1 cup onion, chopped
1 1/2 cups potatoes, diced
8 cups water
2 cups dry noodles
2 tablespoon margarine
2 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon salt

Combine first 6 ingredients and simmer until tender.
Add noodles and cook until tender.
Blend margarine, flour and salt with a little of the soup liquid until smooth.
Add to soup, stirring rapidly and boil for about 3 minutes.
Yield: 12 servings.

Peking Duck and Noodles

Peking Duck and Noodles another recipe of Chef Narciso De La Cruz

Ingredients

• 20 grams butter
• 10 grams oil
• 5 grams garlic, chopped
• 150 grams Peking duck meat
• 40 grams Brie cheese
• 20 grams spring onion
• 5 tomato wedges
• 180 grams rice stick noodles, soaked in water
• 10 grams Thai sweet basil
• 30 ml oyster sauce
• 20 ml fish sauce
• freshly ground black pepper to taste

Procedure

• Heat a wok and add butter oil.
• Saute garlic and onion in the butter-oil for a minute.
• Add duck meat and stir.
• Then add Brie cheese, spring onion, tomato, noodles, sweet basil and a little water.
• Mix well and when the noodles are well coated, toss in the remaining ingredients.
• Stir well and serve