The Grandies Visit

Young grandsons came for a sleepover on Saturday night, so food had to be simple, they cooked it, just ask 'em and they will tell you how.
We had a pasta and creamy sauce dish, very tasty but the only pic is the one taken of the youngest ones dinner, someone was hogging the camera!
This is the table they set, lots of candles, colour didn't seem to be an issue.

To make the sauce I sweated finely chopped onion, garlic, mushrooms, brocolli stems, zucchini and bacon in a little oil , the zucchini had begun to fall apart when the re-inforcements arrived, and so up onto the bench to "cook dinner", we added chicken breast cut into small cubes and browned it, with much stirring, added some diced red and green capsicum, more stirring and then dusted over a little plain flour for thickening, much more stirring, then poured over a can of light evaporated milk, lots of stirring now, but then left to reduce down, this comes up as a creamy pasta sauce, think carbonara but not the cream and plus the vegies, important to get these into little boys by any subterfuge.
Two types of pasta needed for this meal, after all, a little boy has to have his teddy bear pasta.

The youngest will not eat lumps in food at all, so through the blender and hey presto, creamy sauce for teddy bear noodles, went down a treat, especially with the help of his uncles food pusher, sort of chair lift to the mouth.
But oh, the looks of it all mushed up like that, ugh!
Anyway, a good time was had by all and we were all up at 5a.m. for hot chocolate and coffee in bed with Grandad, followed by a breakfast of yoghurt and grapes with pikelets, bacon and maple syrup and to drink apple juice and more coffee. And the camera was.........?

Sunday Lunch was turkish bread with a dusting of parmesan cheese and grilled, layered with lettuce, tomato, kalamata olives, fetta and chicken then drizzled with a nice creamy dressing of egg mayo thinned with milk and caesar salad dressing for zing.

Dinner for a couple of pooped Grandfolk was very simple, leftovers really, made a cheese sauce to which I had added a couple of chopped mushrooms and a little capsicum, added some shredded cold chicken, the left over pasta and into a gratine dish, sprinkled dried breadcrumbs over and scattered grated cheese on top, into a hot oven to heat and brown while I plated up a salad.