La Dolce Vegan Challenge: Noodle Salad with Spicy Nut Dressing

Ugh. My seasonal allergies are at their absolute worst right now, and today I took a new allergy medicine that I did not react well to - I ended up sleeping most of the day (including the 6.7 earthquake that hit the area), and it was not a good sleep, one of those tortured sleeps where you dream you can't wake up. I feel awful now. Anyways, I had to drag my butt out of bed to make today's recipe, Noodle Salad with Spicy Nut Dressing (p. 81). I didn't have the sui choy, fresh cilantro or rice noodles that were called for on hand, so I went downstairs to my local grocery store. NO sui choy - no surprise there - so I used organic cabbage instead. Also, weirdly, NO fresh cilantro. When I inquired, the produce guy said with amazement that there had been a run on cilantro earlier in the day. I guess there's maybe more people doing this challenge than we thought?