Tatchos

 I was watching Rachael Ray today, they were making different types of normal foods, but substituted tater tots. I saw one that was nachos but with tater tots instead of chips, so I had to try it out.

 I fried the tater tots, (you can bake them, but I love them crisp). I topped it with nacho cheese sauce, a shredded taco cheese blend, left over shredded chicken, green onions, jalapenos, sour cream, salsa, and hot sauce. You could add anything you love on nachos on top of this. Jake had rice cheese, but he did add some of the nacho cheese sauce.

  This was a really good comfort food. Warning it is highly unhealthy, but very delicious!

                                                            I did not eat all of this.

Salmon, Pasta, and Zucchini

 I realize it's been a very long time since I have posted, but we have been busy, so not cooking regular dinners lately. This last week we started taking turns again, except Tuesdays and Thursdays, those are the days he attends Butte Community College. Tonight was Jake's night to cook.

 He started with the salmon. He took a 12oz salmon, placed it on foil, in a deep pan, then sprinkled on chinese 5 spice, ancho chili powder, and red pepper flakes, then added about 1/4 cup white wine, red, yellow, orange mini sweet peppers, along with carrots, green onions, and zucchini spears, he then folded the foil into a packet, placed it in the oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

 Meanwhile he boiled water for the pasta. In a separate deep pan, he added olive oil, green onions, garlic, and 1/2 bag of frozen stir fry veggies. After that was tender he added, some Worcestershire sauce, rice wine vinegar, and sriracha. After the whole wheat spaghetti was done he added it to the veggie pan. It was his version of chow mein. He did an excellent job.

 Since starting this blog and cooking with Jake, he has went from eating no veggies, to eating, several of them. Proving cooking with your kids does get them to eat different things!