(clockwise from upperleft) As I have mentioned before, Nugget's preschool focuses on learning one letter of the alphabet each week. This week is letter "Z". Trader Joe's has organic alphabet pasta (a tri-color pasta using tomato powder and spinach powder to get the other two colors), so I thought it might be fun to incorporate the weekly letter into this lunch. A great activity to keep the kids occupied while you prepare lunch in the morning is to have them sort the uncooked letters, or look for specific ones - or even have them just sort by color if the letters are too difficult. There were not enough Z's to make a serving, so instead I picked out a couple letters to spell one of his favorite words since toddlerhood - STOP (as in "Stop sign" and "Red light! Stop!"). I cooked the alphabet noodles in salted water to al dente, tossed them with extra-virgin olive oil and ground pepper, and added grape tomatoes and little squares of cut prosciutto.
To the right is fresh and airy micro-grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, which Nugget likes to eat plain but can also sprinkle on the pasta if he thinks of it. I did cover the cheese container with Glad Press-n-Seal since that container does not have a lid and the cheese would otherwise get everywhere during transport. Peas, a banana with slits for easy peeling, and five TJ's chocolate mini-meringues. Drink: Water.
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