Hacking Pasta, And By “Hacking,” I Mean Cutting Into It So It’s Unrecognizable

I like pasta, and I want to eat pasta over and over and over and over, but I know that it’s not particularly healthy, especially for the children, so lately I’ve been looking for pasta alternatives. The first one I tried was Mrs. Leeper’s Corn Vegetable Radiatore. It was pretty OK. I was sold on these carrot and spinach powders. I have no idea if the bulk of it was just corn though. I also tried their similar rice vegetable twists. I suppose I need to figure out whether any of this stuff is actually healthier. Not for nothing, right?

Tonight we had these Molino Andriani Felicia Bio buckwheat penne things. Plain, they were very buckwheaty. Like my grandmother’s kasha; fuckin’ full-on groat. I was worried they’d taste too buckwheaty, but in sauce they sort of lost that intense flavor. They were very chewy, however. That said, the boys happily ate them.

We’ll keep looking.