Garlic Flavoured Hot Dog Pasta & Asking for visitor's tips - What Do You Pack In Your child's Lunchbox?

To pack, small children's school lunchbox is a daily challenge for every mom. To pack a lunchbox, which is healthy and eye-catchy for them and which they will like and eat in your absense. Over that, their taste buds change very frequently. One thing they won't like for long time. So, I am asking tips or recipes from my visitor's and fellow bloggers...What Do You Pack In Your child's Lunchbox?
You can write your tips in comments section of this post or you can mail me at indranidh(at)gmail(dot)com, put lunchbox in the subject line. Don't forget to write your name & blog name.

Write me within Dec.27,2008 and I will publish them for everyone.

I want to share one of my daughter's favorite Pasta recipe.........

Garlic Flavoured Hot Dog Pasta


Ingredients :
Pasta : 1/2 pack of any kind
Vegetables : Carrot, green bean, green & red pepper, corn, green peas
you can add any vegetables of your choice(cut in small pieces)
Onion : 1 (small)
Garlic : 4-5 pods(blanched)
Tomato sauce : 2-3 tblsp.
Chilli sauce : 1-2 tblsp. (optional)
Black Pepper : 1 tsp.
Salt to taste
Oil : 3 tblsp.

Method :

• Cook pasta in a pan with a drizzle of oil and a pinch of salt until done. Drain and keep aside.
• Hot-dogs are always cooked before packaging. But hot-dogs and their packaging fluid are sometimes contaminated. So I always wash and put them in boiled water for 5 minutes. Then deep-fry hot-dogs in oil until it gets brown from all sides. Cut in small round pieces and keep aside.
• In a pan, pour oil, fry all the vegetables until done and keep aside. In the same oil, fry onions for some time, then add blanched garlic and stir fry for 2 mintes.
  
• Then add tomato sauce and chilli sauce, if you child can't tolerate chilli sauce, avoid it. Mix finely, then add cooked pasta, vegetables and hot-dogs. Give it a good stir, add salt and black pepper. Mix everything together and you are done.