Another magazine recipe – it must have come from one of my mom’s or something, because I don’t subscribe to Family Circle. Here’s the link.
We left out the mushrooms (yuck) but followed the rest of the directions as they were.
Peppers:
Peppers & broccoli in the pan:
And the finished product:
As per usual, it doesn’t really match the picture. But it was pretty good. I think we’ll keep the recipe, though I don’t know how often we’ll actually make it.
may 23: wedding
may 24: no picture
may 25: we went to the park
may 26: playing with off-camera flash in our backyard
may 27: pesto sauce in the making
may 28: one of our tomatoes
may 29: another missed day
may 30: palm trees and flare at the shops at legacy
may 31: wedding
may stats: 31 days, 26 pictures
may 16: i visited my friend in lubbock and we toured some local wineries
may 17: rest area. what a view.
may 18: no picture
may 19: our small tomato plant
may 20: shower curtain rings (late-night scramble photo)
may 21: cutting peppers for dinner
may 22: not a great photo, but i wanted to take a picture of our new window
These kind of went together, but I’m counting them as 2. Because it’s my blog and my rules.
I found the recipe for spinach pesto online somewhere, or maybe from another recipe; I can’t remember. Costco sells a huge tub of spinach for pretty cheap and spinach is better for you than basil (right?), so I went this route.
A little bit of the spinach:
It’s supposed to be made in a food processor, which would have been nice, but I don’t have one of those. So I used the blender and kept poking the spinach down. It took awhile. Olive oil, pine nuts, and seasoning went in. Again, I forgot to take an “after” picture.
It was a crazy color, but tastes pretty good.
So then I used the pesto in the next recipe. The recipe’s full name is actually Creamy Pesto Gnocchi with Green Beans and Ricotta, and I found it in Real Simple. There’s the link. It called for store-bought pesto, but mine was way cheaper.
Gnocchi:
Green beans (riveting pictures, I know):
And the finished product, looking…well…
Very green.
If you looked at the link, you probably noticed that ours looked nothing like the picture. And honestly I was a bit disappointed. It was ok, but the flavors didn’t really go together very well. I don’t really like gnocchi to begin with…but Darek loves it, and he wasn’t crazy about this either. It probably would have been better if I used the expensive store-bought pesto and used a lot less green beans than the recipe called for, but you could just put pesto on gnocchi and have essentially the same dish, much simpler.
We didn’t save the recipe.
Oh well. Better luck next time.
I don’t know if i’m going to accomplish my “52 new recipes in one year” goal. March and April turned out be very non-productive months for me, in a lot of ways. When we did try new recipes, I didn’t do a great job of taking pictures. So, with that in mind…
I found this recipe in a magazine.
A somewhat random picture of the peppers and onions:
And the finished product:
It doesn’t look much like the picture. I think it was pretty good, though honestly I don’t really remember; it was so long ago. Well, May, but May feels like a lifetime ago.