Fun with Fio

Expiration soup 🤪 it’s everything in the pantry that was slightly expired turned into an incredibly delicious soup … made 14 two quart containers & everyone loved it ….omg so gooooood ❤️

Don’t worry I googled the shelf life of each product

🌸 fun with fio 🌸
Italian mac & cheese 💚🤍❤️

🌸 fun with Fio 🌸
food cook / kind of a cooking lesson / taste testing for 12 in Alton Bay NH … cast iron macaroni pie, 12 assorted ingredients (homemade imulsafied tomatoes / garlic olive oil / spices sauce or secret cheese base) cast iron pizzas (dough from scratch) & ricotta cavatelli (homemade on the spot) with chicken & spinach in a wonderful Fio cream sauce …. Homemade wine sampling of Grassetti Cellars …Fiore’s Fine Wines 🍷🍇🍷
💚🤍❤️

there is a giveaway contest tonight at 8pm 💜
one lucky winner 🍀 gets a container of the red pepper pasta alla Fiore below and a small bottle of my homemade red vino … let me know in the comment section if you want to throw you name in the hat for a chance to win 🌶️🇮🇹🌶️

the winner is Debra Daly-Cahalane
i picked a runner up door prize winner Amy Long congratulations to the both of you 💜

🌸 Everything soup / stew 🌸

One of a kind incredibly delicious homemade delight made from all the leftovers that I chopped up from a huge dinner party at hunting camp, along with all the leftover pantry good & what whatever else I found in the fridge .. just add broth ❤️

Vt menu
14 people

jarred wild mushrooms /olive mix / hot giardinera / chunk cheese / crumbled crackers

homemade soppresatta

chicken cutlets

chicken parmigiana

pasta meat sauce / mini meatballs

plain meatballs & sausage

spinach raviolis with butter sauce

spinach balls with cannelloni beans

fried ricotta balls with peas

peas / onions & wild mushrooms

sautéed wild mushrooms in a white wine sauce

corn with a creamy pesto

corn / peas butter

salad

after dinner this all gets chopped up and turned into everything soup ❤️🤍💙

carful i either hit something or was hacked don’t pay for anything don’t put your credit card in anywhere

Wine giveaway 🍇🍷🍇

to celebrate the 500 follower mark I am giving away a bottle of Grassetti Cellars Fiore’s Fine Wine
The lucky winner will receive a homemade red or white blend of californian or italian vino 🍷

Message me if you want to enter the contest. I will write your name on a piece of paper & pull the lucky winner Sunday morning between 9am & 10am

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I decided to be nice today and picked three winners:
Chris Cady red
Judith Kelliher white
Lisa Maggi red & white mini

Fyi

Chocolate chip scones i made last night …. in the fridge is a ready to bake cran raisin / orange zest scone batter … picture to follow after i bake them btw they were awesome ❤️

recipe chocolate chip
yield 8 scones

9 oz all purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 stick (cold) unsalted butter shredded or chopped into small pieces
1/2 cup (cold) half & half
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

combine & mix the dry ingredients in a bowl …
add in the butter and hand mix… try to keep the butter coated by flour as you mix to keep it from getting soft.. add the wet ingredients and mix till fully blended … if it seems wet add a sprinkle of flour…fold in the chocolate chips … put the batter on saran wrap making a square 1 inch thick and wrap it tight … refrigerate to cool batter down … place parchment paper on a baking sheet and cut into 8 pieces & place / arrange on paper … preheat oven to 350 degrees (low fan) and bake for 15 to 20 minutes (you can keep the better in the fridge overnight if desired and bake in the am)

homemade potato gnocchi in a simple butter sauce 💚🤍❤️ recipee below


boil russet or idaho potatoes skin on until soft / done

while still warm peel skin then send through a potato ricer or use the largest holes on a hand grater

drizzle scrambled egg over potatoes and mix in using a bench scraper

add salt and pepper

sprinkle on flour and mix in slowly dont over work it keep sprinkling and mixing / kneeling it till it seems dry to the touch and forms a smooth dough

you can always add a little more flour as needed so it’s not sticky (also depends on how much water the potato sucked in)

cut log into pieces and on a floured surface ROLL out each one into a long tube 3/4 inch wide

cut into 3/4 long pieces

then use a floured fork to roll the pieces leaving the fork marks or if you have a gnocchi board even better .. remember to Roll them…
you can also just use your finger and roll it backwards to make an indent / impression

place separated and lightly floured on parchment paper

boil water add salt and add gnocchi .. they will instantly sink … when they all float give it a extra minutes … cut one to make sure it’s fully cooked through

screen out and add cover with a sauce

you can also sauté the in melted butter with a slight amount of gnocchi water .. finish fresh basil / black pepper and a little grated cheese

be creative with your sauce anything goes but keep it simple

you can also add a little ricotta if you want to make them a little creamier

gnocchi
1 lb potatoes
1 egg
1 cup all purpose flour
salt & pepper to taste

tonight’s cook fried rice ❤️