For dinner last night I made a really easy, really tasty hot & sour soup recipe (variations on a recipe I found on the internets). How simple? Combine chicken stock (4 cups), lime juice (1/4 cup), fish sauce (3 Tbsp). Add 3 stalks lemongrass and a jalapeño (cut in half) and boil for 5 min. Remove the lemongrass and pepper. Add some udon noodles and shiitake mushrooms. Cook for about 6-8 min. until noodles are done. Add 1 lb. of fresh shrimp (peeled and cleaned) and some chopped scallions. Cook until shrimp are done. Salt & pepper to taste. Garnish with chopped cilantro. The most time-consuming part of this was cleaning the shrimp. So this could be made even simpler by using cleaned, frozen shrimp. Or cooked chicken, or tofu. Heck, if you subbed veggie stock, I guess you could even make it vegetarian. Well, except for the fish sauce. Anyway, a super delicious meal for an unseasonably chilly evening. I'll definitely be making it again. As a bonus, if we plant lemongrass again this year, we've now got at least one recipe to use it in.