The pasta saute at my house!

polyesterchesters

I just thought I would share this with you all, as I have a very picky husband and 10 year old and a chinese exchange student who eats anything and it has become very hard to cook around here! We do a pasta saute every onece in a while. I always have some veggies on hand, some sun dried tomatoes in the pantry and well, anything else that may appeal to us...... I boil up some pasta, any kind really even the enriched is not too horrible in the nutrition area. I then grill chicken and lay out all the veggies and stuff on the counter.

Everyone then goes over to it, grabs a fry pan, sprays some pam in it and adds what they want. Everyone in my house loves it. It makes a good low cal dinner and everyone gets what they want.

Last night I had spaghetti, chicken, sun dried tomates, mushrooms, a bit a cheese and a salad. You can look at my diary. to see how it added up. the ingrediatns made a huge plate full that I could not finish and like I said, the kids love it.

Happy Sunday!

rachi20024

What a great way to get your children involved, and satisfy everyones needs! That sounds delicious. :happy:

creativefrugalmom

That's an awesome idea! Thanks. It is definitely a good way to give everyone what they want, but do it as a family as well and let them interact in the kitchen. I have a 12 yr old and 14 yr old - girls and an autistic 14 yr old son. They love to cook with me, but out kitchen is small so I can't have them all in there at one. Hopefully I can involve them all at once using this.

Sunsh1ne

Ooh, that sounds like a great idea! Especially since my family is always ending up with little odds and ends of veggies at the end of the week, and that's a super easy way to wrap them up. Now that I think about it, the caf at college does something kind of like that for the students and it's always the longest line at dinner.