We've been focusing a lot on the domestic arts in our house. Saturday morning, we had a meeting about the importance of keeping a clean and tidy home. It was at once encouraging and discouraging...but more about that in a separate post.
One of the focal points of our current domestic training is providing healthy, tasty meals.
I love to cook. I love the process of buying groceries, stocking the pantry neatly with food, preparing the meal, setting the environment and serving the finished product. I despise the cleanup, but I plug away because the meal-making is so satisfying.
I love making family favorites as much as I love trying new recipes. I hope to pass this passion for providing sustenance to my family, especially to my children. But I also hope a bit of it rubs off on my husband Bo as well.
Along these lines, Monet has been providing the family with delicious pancakes every morning. Bard, a recent vegetarian, took some time to make a grocery list of healthy recipes from Honest Pretzels, a kids' cooking book by Mollie Katzen of Moosewood fame. You can find the recipe for the original "Honest Pretzels" here.
Anyway, fifteen year old Bard accompanied me to the grocery to gather our supplies for this week's meals. While perusing the pasta for Tasha Tudor's Homemade Macaroni and Cheese recipe (or "receipt" as Tudor writes), we saw a box of manicotti noodles which featured a yummy-looking manicotti recipe on the back.
Last night, Bard made the manicotti.
Can I just say "yum?"
It was heavenly. Delicious. Fantastic. She said it wasn't that hard. The hardest part was stuffing the manicotti noodles.
Whatever. The meal was delicious. And I say "meal," even though it was just the one main dish. There was nothing lacking. And because she made a double batch, there are plenty of leftovers for lunch.
Oh, yum.
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