Mushroom and pak choy spinach gnocchi

Mushrooms and gnocchi? Although this wasn't planned, they go surprisingly well together. I had bought this gnocchi because it was spinach flavoured, and in retrospect, I could have put it to better use, like spinach and ricotta gnocchi. Despite this, I don't regret this meal. The slightly sour flavour of the spinach gnocchi compliments the opposite flavour of the mushrooms, and the juxtaposition of textures between the gnocchi (starchy and firm) and the mushroom (firm in a more gelatinous way) offer interest.

My attempt at "Zoodles"

In the 4 Ingredients Allergy book there are also various "zoodle" themed recipes. Or that is, Vegetables prepared to replace pasta and noodles in meals.

Sweet potato noodles are ready to fry.

The idea is that you peel the vegetables instead of cutting them, so that you end up with something like linguine or wide rice noodles. The recipe involving sweet potatoes called for cinnamon as well for some reason. The idea was to fry them in oil (!!). However, I failed to use enough oil and ended up with overly thin bits of undercooked sweet potato that had to be broken up so they wouldn't stick to the bottom of the pan. Grr.

The zucchini fared better, but it was a hassle to peel one zucchini let alone the amount you would need for a pasta dish. And it just tasted like normal zucchini.

It's hard to stop noodles breaking apart in stir fries at the best of time. Sweet potato noodles (which didn't even fully cook) were a bad, bad idea for this meal (the chicken and balsamic noodles from 4 Ingredients, in which I used mung bean noodles).

In future, I will make sure noodle stir fries are composed of ingredients that have been cooked fully XD.

Salad with crispy bacon mustard dressing

Since I happened to have bacon, mustard, garlic, vinegar and French dressing, "Supercook," a website that collates various recipes from various websites based on ingredients used, showed me the recipe for this dressing. It was rather amazing and I needed suprisingly little to flavour the salad.