Macaroni and butter
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- October
- 11
The smitchiks and I spent the day at a friend’s house on Long Island, and for lunch she made pasta for the three — my two boys and her daughter, who’s almost a year older than Rafael.
Rafael, of course, declared he wasn’t hungry when asked, but my friend’s no fool and was making enough for all even before Rafaelito came out with, “I’m HUN-gry.” She and I just looked at each other and laughed.
So, the pasta was boiling and almost ready when my friend asked the terrible trio whether they wanted butter or cheese on their noodles. (She buys elbow pasta and makes her own mac & cheese when needed.)
Honestly, I wondered, “butter?”
But her daughter is kind of a picky eater (I mean, she doesn’t like chocolate!), and, sure enough, likes butter on her pasta. Then, about halfway through the bowl, she switches to cheese.
My boys, of course, like cheese.
The three of them, sitting side-by-side on the floor on a sheet, each eating from his or her bowl of mac & cheese (or butter) in a makeshift picnic in the living room — some memories you know you’ll just treasure.
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As you know, kids frequently are partial to the store bought, chemically laden evilness that we don’t like to serve them. I’ll never forget my niece (about 6 or 7 at the time) asked her great grandmother for macaroni and cheese. Well, grandma went about making an amazing mac and cheese with fresh pasta and all kinds of cheeses and bread crumbs and it just looked (and tasted) incredible. The kind of mac and cheese that is worth an extra hour or two at the gym!
Grandma proudly presented her culinary creation to her great-granddaughter. My niece’s response? “This tastes terrible and it took you an hour to make it! Don’t you have the good stuff in the box?”
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