Having your cake and eating it too.

Menu for 4/13:

•  One pot pesto pasta, potatoes, and green beans

Ingredient list:

One large or two small boiling potatoes, fresh washed and trimmed green beans, thin pasta (like spaghetti or linguine), goat cheese. 

For reasons I can not explain, I have always been of the state of mind that having both pasta and potatoes on the same plate is something you just do not do. Sort of like how you don't drink soda before noon or how scrambled eggs are (normally) a breakfast food. It just is, that's why. Then I came across this little ditty. I am pretty sure that this recipe is going to rock my world view and I can not wait. The boy found this one in the book, when he brought it to my attention I noted that one can add what ever protein source one wanted to this and I bet it would still be really nom. He still has chicken sausage in the fridge; they are fully cooked but he needs to use them up. As for me, I am thinking of adding some tuna that has been kept in olive oil. I guess that I could use regular tuna if I wanted. I honestly do not know. We will have to see what Wednesday night holds. Stay tuned!

Pizza-Pizza

Menu for 3/2:

• Pizza (two types)
• Sea-salt caramel gelato

Pizza #1:

Pizza crust, pizza sauce, mozzarella and provolone cheese, fancy sausage, garlic.

I am going to fully admit right now that I am partially cheating. There is no real recipe this week. I have bought Pillsbury Pizza Dough™, and Trader Joe's Pizza Sauce™ and plan to make a mess of them. Furthermore I did not cure the sausage myself nor did I curd the cheese. Sue me.  I don't even know if the expression "curd the cheese" is the correct term either, or if it is even a real term at all. Well it is now. Anyway, as you may have noticed, this pizza has meat on it to it is his pizza. We had fun on Saturday and went to BJ's Wholesale Club while incredibly hungry. I don't recommend this unless you are willing to pay $50 for only cheese, pizza crust, and Ruffles™. On the brighter side I can now make enough pizza crust to feed at least the Back Bay, if not all of Boston. Only pizza crust though. I could make Boston pizza bread sticks? Oooo! Cheesy bread sticks!! Hmm, I don't know if I want to share now that I thought of it.

Pizza #2:

 Pizza crust, pesto, shrimp, broccoli, spinach, mozzarella and provolone cheese.

This one is clearly mine and it is going to be delicious. I am stoked for it and I don't even surf/skateboard so the fact that I am using the term "stoked" should emphasize the level of how much I am anticipating this nom-fest. I might add a little bit of garlic to it just to boost it into the stratosphere of nom. It is going to be good. That is what I am trying to convey, alright.

Sea-salt Caramel Gelato:

Yeah, this was an impulse buy, 100% impulse buy. You try walking past a little tub of delicious with that title. I dare you to resist it!*

*This dare does not apply to those whose don't like any of the following: gelato, caramel, sea-salt.