Tilapia and pasta

Today is the aftermath of over indulging from yesterday. Thanksgiving was amazing, just too many items to blog about. Today is a new day though. I am a proud mom. I asked the kids what they wanted for dinner. One said chicken and the other said fish, if only they would always agree on everything! I said ok lets start with the side, one said couscous and the other said pasta, Ughh. Love these kids.

We settled on Tilapia and pasta, each is happy. Benjamin asks when will it be ready. LIGHTBULB! They are going to be making dinner, supervised of course. I have them look up recipes for tilapia. First three are immediately vetoed, fourth looks good. Only issue with the recipe is that we do not have jars of alfredo sauce. Both the kids look at me confused. You see the look of "Oh, No we cannot do this one too." Ha Ha, they had no idea that I always make my own. Instead of just giving them the recipe and have them do it, I make them look it up.

10 minutes later, we finally have alfredo sauce in the making. They made the sauce totally on their own. They measured, stirred, and seasoned it themselves.

















Then on to the Tilapia. It needed to be baked with Creole seasoning, another thing we do not keep in stock here. Back to good old Allrecipes.com. Guess what, we have everything we need to make our own creole seasoning. Surprise surprise! Both sides of the tilapia get seasoned and into the oven at 425 for 10 min.

Two fidgety kids later, we have fish done, alfredo sauce done, and garlic crescents in the oven. Jasmine says "we are ready to eat" Benjamin, "What about the pasta? Man this cooking thing is hard work."

They get out the pan and start the boiling water. Start to finish they make the spaghetti on their own. Tasting the half cooked noodles WAY too often, but still getting it done.

Over an hour later and a full meal, they have done it!

Side note: This meal is crazy good. They were a little heavy handed on the cayenne pepper, which I love. It added the touch of fire that you want from a creole seasoning. So good.