20 recipes / nutella sandwich cookies + wholewheat penne with cauliflower sauce

Today was completely unproductive from a to-do list standpoint.
BUT, I did accomplish quite a bit if you count in cello class, piano lessons, baking from two recipes, and making dinner.

I didn’t plan on accomplishing two of twenty recipes today. But I did.

We had this pasta for dinner, followed by nutella sandwich cookies for dessert.

I think the recipe I had from Rachael Ray’s book was slightly different from the one I found on her web. And I made several substitutions to the pasta recipe because I didn’t have all of the ingredients. But the siblings liked it anyway, so it’s all good.

(I used regular penne instead of wholewheat, vegetable instead of chicken stock, dried instead of fresh rosemary, parmesan instead of romano cheese, and left out the veggies. Okay, too many substitutions, I know.)

I also made a batch of marbled chocolate brownies for a friend’s birthday this weekend.

Then I made the nutella sandwich cookies. I’ll admit, I tried to be ambitious and make my cookies with butterfly cookie cutters. But then I ran out of time before dinner had to be on the table, so I changed my mind and made round cookies instead. Maybe I’ll try butterfly shaped cookies another day when I have the luxury of more time (:

6 down, 14 more to go.

I hope your weekend is a-ma-zingggg! I’m quite looking forward to mine (: