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Everyone's out here making ramen this week, I need to add ramen to my list for the weekend! This looks fantastic!

Thank you!

There were a lot of contributing factors to the color I think, even for me it's not normally so pretty looking. I used a white wine so I don't think that contributed. I cooked with a mix of shallots (which were a deeper color than they usually are for me) plus some red onion, normally I'd use yellow or white onion, so I think this had a major effect. All the vegetables were also super fresh and had intense color and aroma even before cooking, so a lot of that pigment definitely got into the dish. I also added a bit of mushroom sauce to it for umami which was a very dark brown, nearly black, and probably has some food dyes in it (I'll have to check the ingredients). And then probably part of it too was that I used a bunch of tomato paste which got even further reduced down and the colors inteneified by how long I cooked it down for since I had to reduce 400 mL of wine down to probably 100mL of finished sauce at the end. So all the red color of the tomato paste got even more concentrated.

edit to add: Contrary to typical advice I used a somewhat sweet white wine (was some sort of blend as my store doesn't sell a lot of vegan wines :/), so perhaps some of the color was intensified by the glaze effect from the concentrated sugars in the wine after cooking down. The lights in my kitchen are very warm and dim and I'm sure that also has an effect on how it looks.

I feel like "how did you make this" is a much better and more community driven question than asking for a recipe. I honestly cannot be assed to write actual instructions and measure out quantities of what I cook, so if someone asks for a recipe I just am not going to be able to answer. But if someone asks "how did you make this," that is so much more open ended for me to answer however I want, whether I have enough energy to write something in detail with the techniques and rough quantities and timing, or if I have no energy and only reply with what ingredients I used.

To me, asking for a recipe like going into an art community and seeing someone posts some nice drawing, and then demanding them to give detailed step-by-step instructions on how to recreate their artwork. Just because I drew a picture doesn't mean I can give you those kinds of instructions! It's actually really hard to write up useful recipe instructions - I still try do it for my own sake in baking, since thats much more of an exact science, but with most cooking that I do it'd take more time and effort to write a recipe than it actually took to cook and eat it in the first place.

Haha I loved this movie. Totally forgot about that line

Gochujang is also my ramen secret ingredient!! I love the flavor it adds. This looks amazing!