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Tired [frankly borderline grumpy at times!] daddy.
Tired[ish] toddler.
Mildly stressful video!
It’s funny how we went from the lovely relaxed and buzzy atmosphere of making the chicken hotpot to this slightly more “edgy” affair. At least Archie’s impeccable sense of comic timing lightened my mood. I think he picks up when I am not on top form – and plays up to it too!
We had found ourselves unexpectedly snowed in on Wednesday (there must have been at least, well, 2cms of snow making it impossible to drive on the ungritted roads of our village), meaning we couldn’t do our weekly shop as planned, scuppering our cooking and videoing plans for the evening.
At times like this, I revert to the store cupboard, usually pastas, and just make do with what I can find. A lonely tin of tuna immediately said “cook me”. I used a few vegetable from the fridge, my ever-reliable bottle of “in case of no food” tomato passata and some olives too. As it happens, the resulting meal was both simple and tasty and, as a home cook, I cannot ask for much more than that…
Preparation time 5 minutes, cooking time 20 minutes.
This amply served three of us, with a little to spare
350g conchiglie pasta
300ml tomato passata (or chopped tomatoes)
1 chopped onion
2 chopped garlic cloves
1 chopped sweet red pepper
1 chopped carrot
2 chopped celery sticks
150g green pitted olives, sliced in half
1 tin of tuna
Archie is brilliant in this one, I love your calm composure even when you are feeling frazzled. This has become one of my favourite sites. We tried the soup last weekend and are about to give the hotpot a go. Leo (almost 10 months) isn't cooking with me yet but I'm sure he'll give the hotpot full-fingered approval.
Thanks a lot Anna, I do hope the hotpot is a success with Leo!! I only started cooking ”properly\” with archie when he was about 13/14 months so there's plenty of time yet…Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
I laughed out loud at the celery “not nice”
I know how he feels! Such a cute little boy!
I love how enthusiastic he is about the olives!
This video is just so adorable
xXx
Love the bit with the Passata bottle….. where did Archie pull that out from – it was like watching Mary Poppins pull a full size lamp out of her bag!
just lovely !!!
That's all you can ask for, really, a child who wants to taste things and knows if he likes or doesn't like them. And one who can hold an involved conversation about a fairy tale whilst gobbling up his pasta!
You just make me chuckle every time you post a comment!!!!
How very lovely, and warm, those vids..
Love the timing, chats, and voices…
Never mind the food!
Hello, I saw you on BBC Breakfast today. Just watched the puttanesca vid , it's brilliant! Archie is a star!
Thank you Sarah!! I love your blog too!
so enthralling your little boy archie, im addicted to him already lol best wishes from a new fan xxx
This is my first visit to your and Archie's blog and its fantastic. My 8 year old son loves helping in the kitchen and i hope it encourages more parents to cook with their kids&live a healthier lifestyle. Will be using this blog on a regular basis, especially when unsure what delights to serve my family! Good Luck,
hi nick,
this receipe was brilliant, this time it was me, finlay and you guys on the laptop giving instructions via the video!! ( just to make sure the quantities were correct- ((pancake saga))) What a tasty dish- we all loved it…. but the dogs are pining as less food getting thrown off the h/chair tray! now all we need is a funpod as i'm getting toned upper arms from holding on to finlay whilst stirring!! we' re going to try the ribs next… we're enjoying your site very much.