pasta | But I Smile Anyway...

Charli’s prompt this week:

September 13, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes pasta. It can be spagetti, macaroni and cheese, or any variety. It can be a meal or a work of art. Go where the prompt leads.

Pasta – Preschool Style

“Okay, today we are making Mother’s Day gifts for your mummies, grandmas, or aunties.
What I want you to do is take the string in one hand, and pick up a piece of pasta.
Remember, the other day, we painted it?
It’s like a tube, and you can thread the string through it, and make a lovely necklace.
No, David, you can’t eat it.
Penny! Stop strangling Julia with the string!
Peter! Don’t tip the tray upside d-…
Don’t worry Mary, we can pick it all up, stop crying, please…”
The life of a pre-school teacher.

https://carrotranch.com/2018/09/13/september-13-flash-fiction-challenge/

If your kids are any thing like mine, then lumps and bumps of veggies in anything , get left on the plate at the end of a meal!
Well, for a change, the above dish went down a treat!
I blitzed onion, mushrooms, tomatoes and peppers in a blender, and added to some cooked, minced lamb. A little garlic , seasoning, and mixed herbs and voila! A secret veggie bolognaise sauce!
Mixed with pasta and topped with cheese…
Yum!
( now to work out how to disguise mince… Lil Princess ate it all and left some lumps of mince this time! “It was yummy, mummy,” she said, “but I left the brown bits!”)