Dirty Little Secret

It has to be some sort of cosmic joke that my children don’t eat of one of the four things I can cook. Actually, “cook” isn’t really the right word. . .it’s more like “manage to put on the table without the risk of poisoning anyone or going insane in the process.” I mean, I’m not an idiot. At least, not when I’m sober (which is pretty much all the time now, unlike my twenties). I can read. So theoretically, I should be able to follow a recipe.

But whenever I try to follow a recipe, something goes wrong. I accidentally spill too much salt into the bowl. I forget to stir. I neglect the oven until I notice a burning smell. I injure myself. Or the children start screaming.

So, when Hot Guy – aka the Family Cook – is away from home at dinner time, I have 4 choices. Hot dogs, grilled cheese, soup or pasta. (I can also make chicken and rice, but I never seem to remember to buy or defrost the chicken in time and there is no way I’m dragging 3 kids to the grocery store and THEN coming home and trying to cook. I know my limits.) But my darling children do not eat soup or pasta.

I know, what kids don’t eat pasta?

Mine.

But I signed up for the Ronzoni Smart Taste pasta tour anyway, because Hot Guy and I like pasta. We just make meat sauce, and then put plain meat aside for the weirdos we call spawn. This pasta has extra fiber and calcium, so it’s one of  those great products that tastes good and is good for you. Better than regular pasta, at least.

I would like to report that my children ate it. But I don’t lie (on the blog, anyway). ChunkyMonkey liked it, but he has yet to enter what I call the Dark Ages of culinary preferences, so it’s not a miracle anything. The important part is that Hot Guy and I liked it. It doesn’t taste like they’ve added healthy stuff to it, it just tastes like good pasta.

Ronzoni even made a very funny video about a Supermom who actually can cook and whose children like pasta. It didn’t inspire my older children to eat pasta either, but my kids did like the video.

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Ronzoni Pasta and received a sample of Ronzoni Smart Taste Pasta to facilitate my review and a $20 thank-you gift certificate.