Chicken Pesto Pizza (Nom Nom!)

Hihi,

So tonight, I remembered I had rotisserie chicken leftovers in my fridge begging to be eaten (and I was dying to eat), so I put together this pizza. It's quick and yummy but to be honest nice horrendously nice to the college student budget, unless you have a basil plant. I bought a pre-made pizza crust and topped it with home-made pesto, fresh mozzarella cheese and the chicken. Into the oven for 8 minutes and nom nom!

...Unfortunately, I'm new to this whole blogging thing so uhh....we ate but one slice of it before D remembers that, you know, we have a food blog. But, I swear, the whole pizza looked was sexy.

I don't really have a pesto recipe...but roughly:

Rough chop a couple handfuls of basil and cilantro. Put half in the blender, blend and slowly add olive oil until blended. Toss in the rest of the basil and cilantro. Toast a handful of pine nuts. Toss in pine nuts, black pepper, salt, a dash of lemon juice, and parmesan cheese to taste.

Vietnamese Spring Rolls

So this is your host Dinesh, and welcome to the first episode of Dinners, Desserts, and Drinks. We'll start with a food that is none of the above, but is delicious anyway, Vietnamese summer rolls. Made by my co-hosts TuQuynh and Sarah, these are made of a clear spring roll wrapper around romaine lettuce, shrimp, pork, rice noodles, parsley and mint.

The most interesting part of this for me was that the shell is dipped into warm water, and then the filling is put into it. There is no cooking of the shell involved!


There are two sauces for this dish, a hoisin-based sauce from Southern Vietnam(right) and a fish sauce from Northern Vietnam(left).


Here is the final product!

So full, need nap! Bon Appetit! And get back to the kitchen and cook yourself some dinner!