Turkey Bolognese Over Whole Wheat Casarecce
A steaming ladle of humanely raised, antibiotic free turkey bolognese sauce over casarecce whole wheat pasta with fresh Parmesan cheese; organic raw spinach; clementine orange slices; organic red seedless grapes; organic Pink Lady apple slices.
Leftovers are are favorite of mine when it comes to packing a bento. The pasta was boiled fresh this morning, but the sauce was defrosted overnight from a homemade stash we had in the freezer and just heated up on the stove top. From start to finish, today’s bento took 15 minutes to make.
Our turkey bolognese recipe is similar to Emeril’s, though we don’t use any milk and add a little lemon juice.
About the spinach: all four of our kids will only eat it raw and prefer it without any sort of dressing or other accompaniment, except maybe for the addition of more raw vegetables diced as a garnish. *shrugs* Sounds lackluster to me, but they really like it and it’s very good for them, so who am I to squawk?
If your kids traditionally thumb their noses at the thought of sauteed spinach, try it raw and see how it goes. I would highly recommend starting with baby spinach since it’s a lot prettier and texturally more appealing than the regular wrinkled raw spinach pictured above.
