Gnocchi with mushrooms and gorgonzola sauce

I found a recipe the other day on martha stewarts site. I alternated it just a tiny bit. The result was amazingly tasty!!
I used fresh packed italian gnocchi.
Ingredients:
1 pack of fresh gnocchi
1 onion
1 garlic
1 cup of heavy cream
About 100-125 gr. gorgonzola cheese
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
Salt and pepper (I used 3 kinds of peppers)
Olive oil and a little butter
200 gr. fresh mushrooms coarsely chopped
Preparation:
1.Boil the gnocchi for about 4 mins, until they come to surface.
2.Heat olive oil and a little butter in a pan. Add the chopped onion and garlic and cook for a while until golden. Add the mushrooms and cook for about 5 mins stirring well. Add a little water and cook.
3.In another pan heat the heavy cream until it comes to boil, stirring continually, until it thickens a bit. Add the gorgonzola cheese, salt, peppers and the nutmeg. Cook until it becomes a well blended sauce. Add the cheese sauce in the mushrooms and cook for another 2-3 mins.
4. Add the boiled gnocchi and mix well.
5.Serve with a glass of white wine and some freshly chopped parsley.

Hope you enjoy!!
Good luck!
xoxo
B.

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Pretty Little Liars

Hello dears!!! :) This post is dedicated to all you girls out there..So..I'm officially a PLL fan!!! And I keep wondering..why on earth didn't we have english teachers like Ezra Fitz while in highschool??? :)) Damn..this guy is hot!! Beautiful smile, wonderful eyes and a fascinating, mature, down to earth personality..
Enjoy ladies..;)

xoxo
B.

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Clean Monday - Lagana

Clean Monday today here in Greece. It's the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian. The name refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and non-fasting food.
It's a public holiday and is celebrated with outdoor excursions, consumption of fasting food and the custom of flying kites.
One of our traditional food is a special kind of bread eaten only at this day called "lagana". It's thin and crispy and yiammee!!! :)
Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

20 gr. fresh yeast
1/2 cup warm water (40C)
1 kg all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
sesame for sprinkling
Preparation:
Mix the yeast in the warm water until it is dissolved. Add some flour until it becomes a thick mash. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place for 12 hours. It will double in size and then "sit".

Sieve the remaining flour and the salt in a bowl. Make a hole in the middle and add the sugar, the olive oil, the yeast mixture and 2 cups of warm water.

Start moulding, until you have a soft, elastic, easy to mould dough. If the dough is too dry, add a little extra water, 1 tablespoon at a time. If the dough is too sticky, add extra flour, 1 tablespoon at a time. Cover it and let it double in size.
Then divide the dough in  half , put them in lightly floured surface and roll the doughs half finger thick, giving them a rectangular shape.

Put them in pans covered with baking paper and let them double in size.
With a fork pinch the doughs all around, sprinkle with a little water and sesame on top. Bake in 200C for about 40 mins.

Enjoy with halva or butter and jam!!

Good luck!!;)

xoxo

B.

"Wash yourselves and ye shall be clean; put away the wicked ways from your souls before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, consider the fatherless, and plead for the widow. Come then, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow; and though they be red like crimson, I will make them white as wool (vv. 16–8)." Isaiah 1:1-20

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