Do you see what I see? Loch ness monster sea horse?

animals, art, images, pictures, quirky | August 8, 2011 | By

I’m guessing this was soy sauce. I don’t actually remember and I don’t have a picture of whatever the dish was before I ate it even.

I suppose the pictures in the sauce were just more interesting.

Do you see what I’m looking at?

See it? It really makes me think of a sea horse….the head and neck area. But the shape of the whole thing is much more loch ness monster-ish.

          

Plain ol’ pasta doesn’t have to be plain at all

baking, cheese, dinner, pasta, quirky, supper | July 24, 2011 | By

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

I really don’t know what to call this dish. After all, it *is* simply rigatoni with sauce and cheese.

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

Then again, for whatever reason, turning all the noodles upright after cooking and then baking them this way made this dish way more fun….both to make and eat.

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

It didn’t take very long, but it did take longer than I thought it would. I figured I could do more than one noodle at a time, laying them in bulk, but not a chance. Each one had to be stacked individually.

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

Doesn’t it look cool when they’re ready, though? And then comes the sauce and cheese. And then more sauce, ‘cause hey, why not?

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

And then hey, why not some more cheese to melt on top of that?

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

Yum. Now the tricky part was actually serving it. You see, with all that sauce, the pasta couldn’t exactly stick together, could it?

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

Notice it going everywhere? (Oh, and those cheese biscuits in the lower left? Also really, really good)

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

Yeah…. So it might’ve been a little messy….

Baked rigatoni tube pasta with holes in them - standing up in baking dish with cheese and sauce

But it still looked cool in the pan and tasted so much better than just “plain ol’ pasta.”

Hello Kitty tortilla pizzas

You know Hello Kitty, right? If not, you should probably leave the internet now and never come back. :P

Pretty close, yeah? I used olives for the eyes and whiskers, sesame seeds for the nose, and pepperoni for the bow. Oh right, and a mozzarella cheese base, of course.

The girls had been watching me carefully cut the tortillas and once they finally guessed what I was making, they were so excited. It’s not even that I have any Hello Kitty fans, so much as it was that they loved being able to recognize what I was creating.

They were each slightly different, too. The bows weren’t quite right, so I kept fiddling. Some were fatter, some had higher whispers, etc. Some had funky ears.

Because they’re used to having tomato sauce with pizza-esque items, we had some red Hello Kitties, too, hehe.

I thought it was really funny how they each ate theirs, too. Instead of starting at one point and eating straight through to another (or requesting I cut it into pizza sliced triangles like they usually want), they each eat around the face in one way or another:

When I’d been cutting the tortillas, a couple of them were too kitty like and not cartoon Hello Kitty enough, so I pushed them to the side. With a little altering, though, they were still usable. My little sister came through and turned them into Pretty Kitties instead:

 

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