The irony of being on a non-fast day and not knowing what to cook isn't lost on me, but as I was finding things to put on my amazon wish list so people can buy me birthday presents, I can across a book called the souther vegetarian, and it's an awesome looking cookbook full of souther style comfort food based one blog called the chubby vegetarian.
Anyway, browsing through to blog I came across a recipe for carrot gnocchi, which seemed like fun since we had carrots in. Anyway having had to modify the pesto recipe a little anyway I wasn't fazed when I substituted a beetroot to make up the cup of diced carrot they specify - it couldn't make that much difference to the taste and it might make it a little bit pink.
I followed the method, and the rest of the recipe and had a bit of a freezer bag malfunction but it was only when I'd cut off blobs of he pinkish mixture into the boiling water and fished them out into the veg and oil mixture in the other pan did I realised what I'd made..
The it's realistic looking chorizo / pepperoni ever.
Now I've just had a slightly odd meal, since I was using a smudge of smoke paprika anyway, and with the peas and butternut squash the meal looked like it should taste Spanish, but with the pesto, tasted of Italian.
Now the question is, if I play around with the spicing in the original 'gnocchi' mix can I make a healthy, veggie, cheap, quick version of chorizo, which apparently hold together under frying and looks the part too....
