Gnocchi

Making gnocchi is an incredibly easy task. All it really involves is, making mashed potato's, adding one egg, adding flour to the potato, and mixing it in until it is a dough. usually when I make gnocchi at home I don't follow a recipe, I just mix in flour to the potato's until it feels like a good consistency and they usually turn out perfect.
So after making the dough we rolled it into long rolls and sliced the rolls into bouncy ball sliced pieces. Then we took a fork and pushed it in the pieces leaving an imprint of the fork.Once we finished that we boiled them in a pot until they floated to the top. When we took them out, I put them in a bowl and I poured some olive oil and and salt on them. they tasted exquisite, I couldn't Imagine them tasting any better with tomato sauce then they already did.
Then we made the sauce for them, we fried up unions with garlic, then added tomato paste and canned tomato chunks as well. After cooking the sauce for a bit we blended it, Then we put it back on the stove to heat it up again. when it was done we put it on the Gnocchi's and tried them. Surprisingly it wasn't as good as I suspected it would be, but it was still good.
I would defiantly make the gnocchi again but not the sauce.

This is not a picture of me making them.

Vibrio Vulnificus

Vibrio Vulnificus
This bacteria thrives in salt water.
The food sources involved with the contaminants are oysters, clams, lobsters , fish, most sea food.
The implicated illness with this bacteria is acute diarrhea, and wound infection.
The incubation period for this bacteria is between one and seven days.
Symptoms of this bacteria include Gastrointestinal illness, Fever, and Shock.
Eventually after getting the bacteria the host will either be cured from the bacteria or will die of the infection.
Ways to prevent from getting this bacteria is avoiding oysters, and avoiding getting cut in warm coastal waters.
When the oysters are harvested and and cleaned, any bacteria that survived processing will be shipped to stores, and people will buy and eat the oysters, and they will get infected.

bible search 3

Bible search 3

     1)  A) God said his name is I am.

b) God does not want people to swear falsely in his name.

c) God has mercy on us and will forgive us.

d) God is so excellent that he set his glory above the heavens.

e) The lord is our help.

f) God is the only way of salvation.

g) Jesus was humble and god exalted him.

h) The people who have gods name written on there forehead will be saved.

     2)

a) There is none else but God.

b) Anyone who worships idols is an abomination.

c) Before god there was no god. He was God before there were any idols.

d) God is saying that there is no other god but him, and he still takes care of the people who worship other gods.

    3)

a) If other beliefs are contradicting the bible them we know that there is no proof in it.

b) Not all prophecies are false; we should consider which ones were true.

c) The word of God helps you discern thoughts and intents of the hearts.

d) Don’t believe every spirit because there many false profits in the world.

biscotti

This week in foods we made biscotti. Biscotti is a dry bread stick that you can dip in your coffee.
we made it twice this week using two different recipes.
For the first recipe, we started with mixing the oil, eggs, and sugar together. Then we added  the flour and  baking powder. we mixed until it was a think dough. Then we flattened it to about a 1/2 inch think and put it in the oven for 20 minutes. when it got out we sliced them, flipped them on their side, and put them back in for another 10 minutes. when they got out of the oven they tasted really good.
for the second recipe we did the same thing but with butter instead of olive oil, and we added vanilla.
overall I liked the second recipe more then the first one, it had more flavor.
I would defiantly make the second one again just because they are so easy to make and take so little time.

lentils

This week we made lentils and rice, and lentil soup.
 For the lentil soup, we fried up leeks with unions in butter, then we added water and lentils. we boiled the lentils with thyme and bay leaves until they were soft, then we blended them in a blender. After blending we put the soup back on the stove to heat it up again. It didn't taste very good so we added garlic and chili  powder.
On Thursday we made rice and lentils.
We started frying unions and garlic in a pan, then we added curry powder and water. we put the lentils in the water and let them simmer until the water started to get think and the lentils started to break down. Then we added rice and put a lid on it until the rice finished cooking.
When it was done the lentils had all dissolved into the water and it was just the rice left.
The second lentil dish tasted a lot better then the first one did.
I would defiantly make the second soup again but not the first one.