Pasta for dinner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she's on a low carb diet or gluten free

Then she can decline. No one is catering to adult food preferences at an impromptu playdate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she's on a low carb diet or gluten free

Then she can decline. No one is catering to adult food preferences at an impromptu playdate.

Well she did, she asked if that was it then probably pushed the food around the plate. She didn’t mention any preferences at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

If my grandparents are from Ireland does it make the plain potato less weird?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Yeah, I think this is one of those cases where, no I 100% wouldn't have said anything and friend shouldn't have either but maybe next time throw out some apple slices and stringed cheese?

With young kids you have to anticipate them being a bit weird about food so options is never a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

If my grandparents are from Ireland does it make the plain potato less weird?

Excellent Excellent Excellent post! Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

These are such absolutely strange "rules" to me. The OP didn't serve a bowl of just plain pasta. She served pasta with butter to the kids. The butter is acting as the sauce. A lot of kids like pasta that way. And then she served the mom pasta with vodka sauce, and the mom is the one that complained about the meal.

I don't like vodka sauce or butter on pasta, so if it were me, I actually would have asked for the pasta plain and I would have just added some grated cheese (and according to some people here, that dusting of cheese would make it legitimate because protein??? Even if the small amount of cheese used would have less protein than the pasta itself, but pasta is an evil carb...).

I would also find it very odd if someone served up celery sticks or apple slices as a side dish with pasta alla vodka, as if I were a 2 year old eating off the kids menu. (I wouldn't make a rude comment though of course). Some fruit for dessert might be a nice palate cleanser but I would not serve it as part of the meal.

What the OP served is a perfectly good self-contained meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s weird.

Would you serve someone bread and butter as the entire meal? Or rice with butter and call it lunch?

Yes, I could see myself offering a bagel with butter or toast with jam as a breakfast along with coffee, if someone stopped by informally after a playdate.

I could also see offering something like risotto (equivalent to the pasta with vodka sauce served) as a lunch or even dinner, yes. It wouldn't be the sole thing I'd serve for a formal dinner party, but as a quick meal with friends, that sounds fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

You don't have to be Indian to serve rice and a potato based dish for lunch, and there's nothing wrong with it either. It doesn't matter if OP is Italian or half Navajo-half Swedish. Pasta is good enough for a quick on the spot meal that wasn't planned in advance. Not great, but certainly not deadly, unless you're an almond mom whose blood pressure spikes just thinking about a Barilla blue box. The guest probably gave her kids some fruit and nuts when they got home to balance it out. And then made a mental not to decline future lunch invitations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

My kids would not want anything on noodles but butter and a bit of parm. No red sauce for my kids. I would probably and some fruit if we had it. I would never invite that woman over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Butter cheese bacon and sour cream!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

If my grandparents are from Ireland does it make the plain potato less weird?

I laughed out loud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

You don't have to be Indian to serve rice and a potato based dish for lunch, and there's nothing wrong with it either. It doesn't matter if OP is Italian or half Navajo-half Swedish. Pasta is good enough for a quick on the spot meal that wasn't planned in advance. Not great, but certainly not deadly, unless you're an almond mom whose blood pressure spikes just thinking about a Barilla blue box. The guest probably gave her kids some fruit and nuts when they got home to balance it out. And then made a mental not to decline future lunch invitations.

It's not the blood pressure that spikes, it's the insulin.

[Anonymous]

Why are buttered noodles a kids menu staple if it is weird to seeve? Do those picky little kiddos also order a side salad lol.