valentines day

double date night!

tonight before our double date with friends, i made fancy date night dinner of four new things for us:

-reisling: a very light, fruity but a bit tart white wine. we liked very much! i can't have red wine (too many emotions) so we've been trying out different white wines, and this one is light enough that it doesn't make me want to shrivel up and die on the inside like fuller wines do.

-sauteed zucchini: cooked for about five minutes in olive oil with garlic salt, oregano, and olive oil. delicious and healthy!

-chocolate dipped strawberries: omnomnom.

-pumpkin ricotta gnocchi: i'm experimenting with gluten free pasta making. for this, unfortunately i didn't measure anything out, just did it by the force... but to approximate...

1/4 cup ricotta

1/4 cup pumpkin (canned)

1 egg yolk

2(ish) cups mixed flour: almond, pinon, and tapioca starch

mix the flour until it is dry enough to roll into little balls without smashing into your hands, or dry enough to not stick to a plate

roll into tiny balls, or roll out and cut into small squares. little circles will be doughier and take longer to cook, squares will be faster but more complicated to form.

drop in boiling water (with a pinch of salt and oil) for approximately 5 minutes

my dough was rolled out too thick, so the pasta turned out too chewy... but if it had cooked longer it would have been delicious. i think i'm going to try turning it into ravioli with the leftover dough and ricotta.