We got a little creative with dinner tonight. We had octopus, seaweed, and drank seawater.
Obviously my mustard-drawing skills leave something to be desired. . .
Just a couple drops of food coloring made everything so much more fun. I’m not a big fan of ramen noodles because they’re so high in sodium, but we had three cups of them. What I ended up doing was opening the cups into a mesh colander to sift out the powdered boullion. Then I rinsed the noodles a little bit before cooking them to remove a bit more of the seasoning. When I cooked them, I dumped in a can of mixed veggies (frozen would have been better but we’re out at the moment) before adding the green food coloring. Our glasses of milk all got a couple drops of blue coloring and was renamed seawater.
S and I argued the whole time I made supper – he kept trying to convince me I was cooking hot dogs. I kept telling him that no, we were having octopus for supper. It sure was fun!
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This is such a grand idea, I will have to incorporate this in a future meal
What a super cute idea.
If you like pesto you can get a really good seaweed affect by having pasta w/ pesto :)
Thanks for the reminder, it’s been awhile since we have have octopus and seaweed!!!
Ginger, Sarah, and Amber, thanks! Amber, the pasta with pesto sounds really neat. Thanks for the idea!
Melody, I love making these little octopus with my son. We always enjoy eating them one tentacle at a time.
How cute & creative!! :) Little S will remember those moments because you took the time to make it a special dinner. That’s awesome Melody.
My littlest maiden said aw…that’s cute!!! :D