Spaghetti for dinner

I think we will have spaghetti for dinner. The kids always love it and it doesn’t take a lot of prep time since I am not making it from scratch today. I will add a tossed salad and some garlic bread on the side and that will do. My eldest child loves to make salads, so I will let him. He really makes a great salad and adds all kinds of stuff. Sometimes, I have to stop him from putting too much. I am teaching him, what ingredients go well in a side salad, based on what you are eating as the main course.

With spaghetti, I like a spinach or ceasar salad for the most part. Sometimes, arugula salad is good with it as well. For tonight, I believe I have the makings for a spinach salad with sprouts, bacon bits, boiled egg, shredded cheese and croutons. I know that there is a lovely raspberry vinaigrette  dressing in there to go on it as well. Knowing my son, he will find a couple of other things to throw in it too. That is the beauty of teaching the kids not just to cook but to create. Now I am really hungry just thinking about it.

Fire roasted veggies

I love to fire roast my veggies before I put them into the sauce when I make spaghetti.I am making home made from scratch spaghetti tomorrow and need to make a trip to the store for my fresh veggies. I will put in onion, mushrooms, pepper, garlic and zucchini. It is going to be amazing. I haven’t made a home made sauce in a while, so I thought it was about time. Everyone loves it when I do, but it sure does take a lot of planning.