Week 2: What should I make Dan cook?

So, I survived my cooking challenge relatively unscathed. Now to choose something for Dan to cook.

I started looking at some of the cook books we own and wasn't overly inspired. In the end I chose two delicious magazines and 2 donna hay magazines. I picked the 'winter' ones because, well it's winter!

I narrowed it down and had four things to choose from:

a) a lamb shank pasta thing, which I decided against because firstly, Dan cooks lamb shanks fairly regularly and also it would involve a few extra hours of cooking

b) some kind of risotto, which again I decided against because Dan cooks risotto all the time and can make it easily! I can't make it too easy for him. It is a competition after all!

c) Mushroom gnocchi. I love gnocchi and the only time I tried to cook it from scratch it was a BIG disaster so I thought that it would be a suitable level of difficulty...

but then I found

d) Moroccan pasties with roasted baby carrots and beets. Comforting winter food. I love Moroccan food.

Let's see how he goes......