Gnocchi Birthday

Potato Gnocchi
Ryan rolling out the dough

Gabe making the butternut dough

Mom doing the sauces

Sadie creating the finished product...yummmmmm

We celebrated Sadie's birthday with a Gnocchi party at my mom's house. For those of you who have never experienced this marvelous dish, I'm sorry. It is FABULOUS and not difficult to make, but is time consuming and tastes like heaven. Basically, the Italian version of potato dumplings...you make a dough and slather it in sauce and freshly grated parmesean cheese. My mom made a few sauces; marinara, mushroom gorgonzola, and an italian meat sauce. We had a new gnocchi thanks to sunset magazine and a few tries by me, mom, Sarah, and Gabe and Sadie...we've adopted it...Butternut Squash gnocchi. Gabe and sadie came up with a butter, sage and cheese sauce which was to die for. Anyway, Sadie had a great birthday, we all had fun making and eating the creations!