tuesdays are tasty

another thing that came out of our weekend full of chitchat was a suggestion of mine to start a tradition of getting together one night during the week to have a nice dinner together. at the time, tuesday seemed like a good choice, so that's what we did. for the first one, it was just us, so we could see whether or not trying to do something like that would be a total disaster, but i imagine eventually we'll get other people to join our little cult, too.

since we both had the [amazing] ricotta from the weekend, it seemed natural to try to do something with it. he had a really neat cookbook with a ricotta/spinach gnocchi in it, so we gave it a try, and while they were a little misshapen (my fault), they were indeed quite tasty. in the end, though, we both decided that it was probably a shame that we couldn't taste more of the ricotta in it.

to go with it, we also toasted some bruschetta and roasted and marinated yellow and red peppers with marjoram and some of his anchovies and capers. that was really really good. i mean, know i have a weakness for peppers in general, but hot damn, this was pushing all my buttons.

as if that wasn't enough, for dessert, we baked pears, and put walnuts and some of the ricotta into them (this was a instant success). i think he might have also added a touch of honey, but i wasn't paying close enough attention at that particular moment. he also wanted to know how i make my shortbread cookies, so we did that as well.

just for kicks, we even got pictures of most of it, which is cool, since it looked all fancy and shit. sometimes it's just a whole lot of good clean fun to do something fancy like that with someone else, since you both know that you'll both appreciate it, but would never bother to go to the trouble for just yourself.

probably next week we'll either start a little earlier, or pick a slightly less involved recipe, or both, since it was like half past midnight, or something like that, by the time he left to go home. i felt a little guilty, since the busses stop at midnight, and he had to walk home, but he claimed not to mind. i offered to walk back with him, but he was right, that seemed rather ridiculous, since i'd have to walk twice as far.

in any case, we both had a blast, and are looking forward to doing it again next week.