Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Arugula Pesto
So for my birthday Nick bought me the Meat Free Mondays cookbook which
Paul McCartney and his daughters wrote and I am excited to say that this
is our first recipe from their cookbook. I was excited to try this
gnocchi recipe, well hesitant and dreading it is more like it, because
our last time making gnocchi was a DISASTER. It was more like soggy
dumplings that we had to force ourselves to eat or we would have wasted 3
pounds of potatoes and too much good parmesan. Anyway, this time we
knew we would do it right and alas we did! We completely followed the
recipe and it turned our perfecto! Besides my first batch of cooking
them because I cooked them for too long and we had another soggy mess
but they were delicious and the arugula pesto was simple to make and
Nick actually liked it. Side note: Nick does not fancy arugula much. I
decided to substitute cashews for the pine nuts as I usually do in pesto
because pine nuts are so expensive. But this recipe is definitely worth
a try and it was exciting to finally get some pasta right. It was also a
colorful dinner with orange pasta and green sauce. I also made a southern banana pudding for dinner. It has vanilla wafers on the bottom, with sliced bananas next, then vanilla pudding, then another layer of that. You put it in the fridge for a few hours and the vanilla wafers get soft like cake. It is really yummy and we served it with a little bit of whipped cream. Yum!
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| Look! Pasta! Yay! |
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It's sideways...but you get the picture...it looks delicious and tasted delicious too!
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Sideways banana pudding! :)
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