Upside Down Irish Pasta

Asa - pretending he was a dog eating it.

So Joab and I bought too much cheese! Our good friends tipped us off to a place in town that sells wholesale foreign foods (think a huge outdoor Sam's club). So we went and got some great stuff! Including eleven pounds (that is right 11!!) of Imported Irish White Cheddar. The block looked somehow very small in the huge market. It was not until we got home that we realized how much cheese we really had! The good news is we LOVE the cheese. So very good! I made mac and cheese for lunch with broccoli. As I was thinking about how I was going to get (con?) the kids into eating pasta with a veggie in it it- I remembered something Joab's Mom used to do. Let them eat the pasta with no fork!

So I let them go for it- labeling my pasta - Upside down- pasta. As you needed to tip your bowl upside down onto the table before you could eat it. The look on their faces that I was LETTING them eat with their hands was worth all the work to cut up/shred eleven pounds of cheese!

My toothless girl with the pasta.

And yes, here is one of the cut up blocks as big as Miriam's head!

Freezer- second shelf full of shredded cheddar. If you come over just assume you will have a dish with cheese in it!

Recipe (this would be a fun St. Paddy's day dish as it is green!)

Upside Down Irish Pasta

Use 1 cup of already steamed broccoli- cut up (mine was from the night before) and put into the bottom of the colander that you use to drain the pasta

Cook and drain a about 1/4 pound of pasta

Drain pouring it on top of broccoli (this heats up the veg so you don't have to put it into the microwave!)

Pour entire pasta and now heated broccoli back into pasta pot. Add 1.5 Tablespoon of butter or margarine and 1/2 cup (or more if you have eleven pounds of it hanging out in your house) of white cheddar cheese.. Mix well

Have kids wash hands WELL. Pour into a bowl and let them flip it upside down and eat it!

(Note- your kids, table and floor will get dirty. But the flip side is that they did not complain about eating their veggies! Enjoy!)