A couple of weekends ago I tried out one of the recipes in my new cookbook, Apples for Jam which my sister got for me after seeing me oogle it while we were in Anthropologie, I suspect. We made the ricotta gnocchi which were really easy to make and … well … amazing. I was planning to make the tomato pesto to go with them, but Target was out of basil, so I bought pre-made sun dried tomato pesto which was excellent.
So when Matt and I were planning a little date night for us, Matt requested that we have the ricotta gnocchi again. Typical to me, I wanted to try out some new recipes (from Apples and Jam, to be precise), but I yielded because we still have an unopened package of the pesto and well … they were really really good. As with last go around, I will also make a simple salad of fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and romaine with balsalmic vinegar dressing on top … and there might be wine. 
Tabby is going to visit her grandparents and Aunt Gaga. As for Matt and I and the rest of the evening, I have no idea what we'll get up to. Probably something TV related would be my guess. We're kinda boring these days.I realized yesterday that I'm almost precisely 7 weeks away from being done with my 101 in 1001. Well done in the sense that it's over … not that I'm done. I haven't really kept up with it all that well I'm sorry to say. But life sort of got in the way of it, y'know. I also think I set a few too many big goals like travel and such. But I will keep them on my list. Maybe I can get them done in the next stretch of 1001 days.
I have, however, completed:
#15: learn the GUI/object oriented features of PHP (had to do this for work in the last year)
#34: frame and hang new photos
#47: go on 8 photo-taking excursions
#63: go skiing with mat 4x in one winter (completed as of our last day at Vail)
#69: go with Matt to San Francisco
#91: read three non-fiction books (easily done with all the reading I did before Tabby was born)
And I think there are a couple more I can get done before the end of February. So maybe I'll get almost half way there. Not awful, I suppose.
Enjoy your date night. The meal sounds yummy!
And congrats on chipping away on your 101.
That ricotta gnocchi looks goooood. I may have to give it a try.
I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I've never had pesto and don't really even know what it consists of. My only experience with it was when I babysat a kid while I was in high school while his mom attended a monthly pesto making class.
Have a fun date night (even if it is snuggled up on the couch watching tv or movies..I can't say much you just described C & I) Glad to hear your still chipping away at the 101..that is actually how I found you originally. Mine hasn't moved much in a few months either but I do need to update it sometime in the next couple of weeks.
I am a pesto junkie. *taps veins*
Dinner sounds delish!
And… Aunt Gaga? I about die every time I read that. It just cracks me up. :O)
ohh i will have to look at this cookbook… sounds interesting… but is this 101 in 1001 stuff?