Maybe some pre-grated Parmesan thrown over the top to make it more swellegant. It's almost enough to make you want to head for the nearest burger joint. After all, there is much about pasta to recommend it to the modern after-work chef.
Noodles are, by their very nature, inexpensive.
They're also easy to prepare, and they combine well with a large variety of other ingredients. Look for the noodles in the larder. And though McCauley has not aimed Noodles Express at vegetarians, all of the 80-plus recipes in the book are cheerfully sans meat. In the good old days when meat, potatoes and two veg reigned over the North American dinner table, vegetarians were the weird neighbors down the street who listened to sitar music and slouched around the block looking pale and wan in their Birkenstock sandals. We've become conscious eaters who care not only about how the food we eat tastes but also about how it affects our well-being.