Micah and Christine

plus three
January 31, 2011 by Christine
Most of last week's meals were a success. Thought I would share a few pictures of how they turned out:

Almond Red Tea Custard


This was good! At about 75 protein-packed calories each, these were a sweet little treat. This was definitely custard, though... it was a little eggy.
Seeping the red tea bags in the hot almond milk, the filled ramekins in their water bath, and the baked custards


"Homemade" pizza
Well, if you assign a value of 0 to frozen pizza, and a 10 to a completely homemade pizza, this was a 3. I bought the crust and the sauce. I shredded mozzarella, added provolone, mushrooms, turkey pepperoni, and spices. This pizza was just ok. I'm going to give myself a break, though. I was still sick and went ahead and made this for family movie night. Then we watched Narnia. 

Palak Paneer, with homemade paneer:
Where do I begin? It was a several hour process last Sunday making the paneer. 
Whole milk and totally adorable buttermilk, cheese curdles
cheese curdles draining, cheese curdles draining part 2

On Wednesday night I stubbornly dragged my sick self into the kitchen and finished the process. The paneer completely crumbled into the spinach mixture, rather than staying in nice, firm cubes. I was REALLY disappointed. Oh well, guess I can't make paneer like an Indian on the first try. The result was still tasty.
tons of spinach, crazy looking mix of foods, palak before the paneer

Falafel with cucumber sauce
This was quite yummy. I baked the falafel instead of frying, so these were not as crisp as restaurant falafel. And yes, that's my big beautiful tomato!
beautiful onion, parsley, and garlic; mashing chickpeas; mixing
more mixing, the 8 patties the recipe called for (even though they were HUGE)

Butternut squash gnocchi
We ate this so quickly I didn't even get a picture of this on the plate.
Thought this was a fun idea: Take the rolled dough log and snip the dumplings into the boiling water using kitchen shears.
Delicious sauce: spinach, mushrooms, pine nuts; gnocchi in the sauce

I LOVED the gnocchi. I made the gnocchi dumplings too big (much larger than stated in the recipe), so I will fix that next time. 
Comments
Cate
What a delicious week. I need to try my hand at making paneer! I love it, but since we rarely go out to eat (even at our favorite Indian restaurant), I should probably consider making it myself!
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