I had leftover Napa cabbage, so I made Chinese Chicken Salad tonight. Normally I make this with iceberg lettuce, but it’s just as good with Napa cabbage. This is a really good salad. I had an odd problem with frying the rice noodles tonight. I don’t know if it was the package or the brand or what, but they didn’t puff up like they should have.

• Madame Wu’s Chinese Chicken Salad (Dear SOS: Thirty Years of Recipe Requests to the LA Times, Rose Dosti, p. 59)