Also if you want to trick them into eating salmon. Try this.
Pink taglierini

2 tablespoons(tb)butter
2 tb olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 garlic clove chopped
3 1/2 oz tomato chopped canned or fresh
3 oz of smoked salmon cut into strips(or chopped if you are being tricky)
1 cup white wine
2 tb heavy cream
1 teaspoon chopped fresh tyme

Melt butter in pan with olive oil. Add onion and garlic and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes(do not brown). Add tomatoes and salmon, cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add wine, cook till alcohol has evaporated. Stir in cream and thyme, season with salt and pepper, heat gently.
Pour over 12 oz of taglierini, linguine, or fettuccine.

Whatever you have in the house. I add sour cream or cream cheese to lighten sauces as well as cream or 1/2 1/2/

Or add the ham

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Here is penne rigate in vodka. It is a nice pink sauce. Leave out the ham and just make the sauce.
4 tablespoons butter
(1 thick slice cook ham chopped)
2 tablespoons tomatoe paste
1 tablespoon of chopped flat leaf parsley
5 tablespoons heavy cream
3 tablespoons of vodka.

In a pan melt butter, add (ham), tomato paste, and parsley, cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in cream and vodka. Cook till alcohol has evaporated.

I'd probably use heavy cream to reduce the chance you accidentally break the sauce. But it's pretty foolproof. Start with one generous glug and see if it needs more.

Well, heavy cream is pretty much whipping cream, although not whipped cream. It doesn't matter if it's this or half and half, it's your comfort level with the fat %.

OP here--thank you…to add to my embarrassment…heavy cream? 1/2 and 1/2?

(at least I'm not lame enough to ask about whipped cream, ha ha!)

Tomato cream sauce. Do not buy it in a jar. Yuck.

It's tomato sauce with cream. Just add the cream to your liking. Depending on how much sauce you have, I'd start with a tablespoon and go from there.

Like a vodka sauce....you can add some cream or half and half. Sometimes it's called a rose I think.

half alfredo and half marinara

My kids have requested cheese ravioli with "pink sauce"---I'm assuming this is tomato sauce with some dairy added to it, but what? Cream?

Can you buy it in a jar? (is it called something?)

Thank you in advance, I know this is really, really basic….