Gnocchi with Brown Butter Sauce

Ever since our stay in Italy, I've been dreaming about the food. Italians really do make the most amazing meals and I wanted to see if I could make some gnocchi. I attempted to make this recipe last weekend. It.was.awful. I don't know why the recipe says to boil the gnocchi for 4 minutes after they rise to the top of the boiling water - that's about 3 minutes too long. The result? One big mushy mess. And not edible.

So, I let one week pass and decided to try it again since I had a huge bag of potatoes. This time, I used this recipe from Smitten Kitchen - although I still microwaved the pototoes and used a potato ricer, as the first recipe above suggests. 12 minutes in the micro versus 45 in the oven sounds much better to me.

I topped the gnocchi with a sage brown butter sauce, melting a stick (!!) of butter and adding some sage, salt and pepper, with nutmeg. After boiling the gnocchi, I put them in the pan with the sauce - it browned the gnocchi which I thought made it better.

I heated up some chicken sausage for protein (the stuff at the top of the plate) and voila:





It looks like one, big, brown mess, but it was a hit!

A Heartbeat Away From Being President (!!)

Whatever your political affliation may be, this interview is just frightening. This woman could potentially be ruling the free world in the upcoming years? The gibberish makes no sense whatsoever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg6hF0nShQ

On another note, can I just say that I love Tina Fey? Love.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/

And I promise these will be the first and last of the political entries...I just want to make sure I have all videos on file for future viewing.

One Year Ago

To think this is what we were doing exactly one year ago:

(see, the ring does fit!)

We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day or perfect year. Happy anniversary!

Sausage Fingers...

...are what happen when your hands get attacked by fire ants. Not good!

Warning: crappy photos ahead. It's the best I could do without having Photoshop.












My fingers are so swollen I can no longer put on my wedding rings.:(





Reason # 7482947389274932 why I want to go back to California. And I haven't even shared photos of my mosquito-ridden legs.

Although I suppose I should be grateful my hands don't look like this (another warning: graphic image).