Buddy: "You smell like beef and cheese, you don't smell like Santa. "

The week of the funeral our family spent everyday at O.G.'s house. That's a lot of family time. One of those days my cousin was telling us a story and she used "air quotes". As if O.G. had never seen anyone do that before, she started doing it...for no reason. "Jenny, can you get some some "water"." Ugh. Believe me, it's even more annoying than it sounds.

I only bring this up because I went to the market with the Kid the other day and they were doling out samples. I thought it was noodles, but NO, they were "noodles." Ya, dig? They were noodles made out of tofu. Now unless you have a severe allergy to pasta I don't know why the hell you would ever EVER eat noodles made out of tofu, but you know my little vegetarian - he took to it right away. He ate like I've never seen him eat before. So I bought a pack, and at just 99 cents, it wasn't a bad trial investment.

There weren't any recipe directions except to 'rinse and parboil to get rid of the natural scent.' Yeah. What they really mean is wash off the stank, because the "noodles" did NOT smell pleasant. In the end I made up a quick noodle soup and totally kicked the Vegan out of it by adding lots of pork, which in turn added lots of flavor. The vegetarian Kid even ate the pork and the carnivore Baby even ate the noodles. That's teamwork right there.

Would I buy these "noodles" again? Most likely NOT. But I will make the soup again with regular pasta. Since my "kids" really "enjoyed" eating "it". See how annoying that is? Freakin' airquotes.