La vie en rose

As I was telling you, I'm completely in love with these purple sweet potatoes. They are so nice with other colorful vegetables such as carrots, cabbage, bricoli etc... And they have a powerful coloring effect: remember my u no hana that I stirred a little too well?

Using this powerful coloring effect I decided to make "pink gnocchi". It is often that gnocchi are colored: spinach fir green, tomato for red, pumpkin for orange... Now pink with purple sweet potato. It was really intuitively easy. I boiled two potatoes with their peal and a 1/3 of a purple sweet potato. Then I pealed them and mixed them together in a bowl. The mixture was a perfect pink!!

Then it's just like making regular gnocchi. Adding flour little by little until you can shape the dough. Honestly I don't like gnocchi that taste flour so my dough is always on the sticky side rather than the firm one, which make it a little more complicated to shape.

Then just before eating I boiled them. And I served them with a piece of thyme-grilled breadt chicken and some olive oil. I believe cream could make a more beautiful effect, but we don't eat cream.., I leave it to you to show me yours!

Italian saltimbocca

I made those very good saltimbocca with slice of veal, Parma ham and mozzarella inside. Cooked in olive oil and fresh  thyme (from Aix garden). It can be serve with polenta. Such a delicious meal.