This is what happens when you leave me to make my own dinner. I fear for my future children when Laurel leaves me home with them for the night. They had better get used to spicy things!

Ingredients

• Half an onion – chopped into long stringy onions.
• Half of what I thought was a cucumber but turned out to be a zuccinni.
• A big head of broccoli.
• a quarter of a red pepper.
• a cup of jalapenos from the pepper bar at Quiznos.
• 15 frost encrusted shrimp from the freezer.
• a pho seasoning packet.
• 2 packages ramen noodles.
• soy sauce.
• sriracha hot sauce.
• hoisin sauce.
• honey.
• salt and pepper.

Directions

• have a glass of wine.
• with new super-sharp wedding registry knives, cut up all vegetables into edible sized chunks.
• put in to the biggest clean pot that you can find.
• fill pot with water.
• throw in the pho seasoning bag.
• get another glass of wine.
• Sit down and finish watching an episode of “The League” .
• forget about soup.
• remember that you are cooking dinner in the other room and run back in there.
• put in ramen noodles, shrimp, hot sauce, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper
• stir
• put in a couple big scoops of honey, because you have way too much honey around the house.
• let simmer for 10 minutes.
• realize that all the bowls are dirty and aren’t big enough anyway, so get out a smaller pot and eat out of that.
• burn mouth on lava-hot soup.
• enjoy.