I can probably count on two hands the number of times we, as a family of four, have eaten together the same exact thing for dinner. Between our picky toddlers, Drew’s work schedule that rarely has him home for dinner, and Jasper’s dietary restrictions due to his continuing GI issues, there are a limited number of meals we all eat.
Tomato sauce has almost never been something Jasper would touch with a ten foot pole, but for some reason I offered him raw tomatoes the other week and he gobbled them up and said that he loved them. ! Benjamin has demonstrated before that he likes tomato sauce, so I figured: we just had to try again.
So a week ago Sunday, I fixed plain-jane grilled chicken with penne pasta and our standard tomato-basil sauce (which won the taste-test on America’s Test Kitchen, by the way). I went so far as to add more brown sugar than normal to really over compensate for the acidity, and i even strained the sauce for the boys – to remove any herbs. And what do you know, but Jasper ate everything. He gobbled it up!
Benjamin did, too.
As a reward for going #2 on the big boy potty (right before bedtime the night before), I frosted some chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Umm-umM! They were yummy. Each boy had his own special way of eating his treat.
What remained after Jasper finished licking off the frosting:
And yes, it was good enough still to eat it without the frosting:
Is that not the look of pure chocolately contentment? (or is it mischievousness?):
He does not show it off so much anymore, but if Jasper asks Benj to “show us your funny face” we get treated to something akin to this. This was just too cute to pass-up.
Have no fear, with some good old-fashion elbow grease and a soapy washcloth, Benjamin is no longer orange.
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