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.
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And congrats on chipping away on your 101.