Another Successful Date Night In

Cooking is such a fun past time. Jacob and I had such a good time last week that we decided to do another date night in. We met at our usual spin class. This time we had an interesting substitute teacher who wanted us to sing along and handed out a prize to the first person who waved a towel and growled. (yeah... I won the prize!) Since my calves have been burning from my new athletic conditioning class, I didn't push myself as much as I typically would. Nevertheless, I enjoy the workout because it helps calm my stress and puts me in a good mood.

This week I decided to experiment with a recipe from Jamie Oliver. I have been trying out a few things from his book, Jamie's Ministry of Food. I made pasta with homemade pesto, sliced up fingerling potatoes, broccoli, and parmesan cheese. While my pasta was boiling, I decided to slice up all my veggies. Using a food processer was very helpful in this process. I would make sure you slice up the fingerling potatoes thinly. Right before the pasta is cooked, you add the thinly sliced potatoes, broccoli florets and thinly sliced stalks. You drain everything leaving a little bit of water in the pot. Dump the pasta and veggies back in the pot and mix in your parmesan cheese and pesto sauce. We added a little bit of salt and pepper to taste. I would probably try and experiment with crumbled bacon on the top. The stuff was so good. We had to get seconds.

I had some leftovers for lunch today, and it gave the pesto more time to soak in. Quite tasty!