I’ve been craving gnocchi’s like no one’s business, and luckily we had potatoes! I was wondering what to do with the avocados we bought and I thought, “hey! what about avocado gnocchi’s!?” So I instantly went to Pinterest (I’ve been so obsessed with this site lately) to see if there was a recipe to make them. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a recipe I liked, so I decided to just wing it and make my own!

All you need are 3 main ingredients:

• Potatoes
• Avocado
• Chickpea flour

I used chickpea flour so the gnocchi’s were gluten-free! Yep, that’s right! These babies are both gluten-free AND vegan as well! (I am not a vegan, but it’s still a good recipe for those who are, and this dish isn’t vegan hence the sausages lol)

Here is the my simple homemade recipe:

(All measures are approximate, as I didn’t really measure anything.)

• 3 c mashed potatoes
• 3 medium avocados
• 5 c Chickpea flour 
• Salt, pepper, and any other spices you want - to taste

First, mash the potatoes and avocados together until mostly smooth.

Then, add the flour. and knead the dough until it’s all mixed in evenly and not sticky. Next time I think I would add a little bit of sugar because I found the gnocchi a little bit bitter, and the sugar cuts that.

Next, roll out the dough in long thin lines. Make sure to sprinkle flour on the table so the dough doesn’t stick.

 Cut the rolls into 1/2” - 1” thick .pieces. Place on cookie sheet lined with wax paper and either use right away or freeze. Then transfer the gnocchi’s to freezer bags an hour or two later.

To cook the gnocchi’s; boil water and add to water and stir. Then boil for about 5 minutes, when they float they are done. I like to cook mine about 3 - 5 minutes after they float just to ensure they are cooked and not doughy. When cooked, take gnocchi’s out of water with slotted spoon,  I take a container, spread butter on the bottom it and put gnocchi’s on top of it then butter them.

I sauteed fresh mushrooms and onions and added sausage to the pan with spinach and then added pesto over the gnocchi’s, then added the gnocchi’s to the sausage.

It was so delicious! My husband (it was his first time having gnocchi’s) and sister loved it! It’s a simple easy recipe the takes about an hour from start to finish. 

The best part about dinner last night was the homemade lemon meringue pie my husband whipped up! Yum!!

A few months ago, when I was volunteering at Absolute Complete Entertainment we asked Maggie (the model) if she would like to participate in a fun, fashion photo shoot.  The shoot lasted about 4 hours, and consisted of about 4 or 5 costume and makeup looks. Sadly, this is the only picture I have from the day, but it turned out pretty good! Thanks to Ryan, who did a great job with the photography and editing, my husband Matt, who also did a little editing, Nicole, who did hair styling and helped me with the wardrobe, and makeup on this photo was done my me. It was a fun day and she was a great model, and had no problem hopping on dumpsters and sitting on random fences for us! haha 

We asked a friend of mine if we could take family pictures of her and her two boys that are 3 and 5. She said yes and quickly realized that she wanted the photo shoot to just be of Connor and Kevin. We took the boys to the park and we had a blast. Our photographer Ryan did a great job on the photos and let the boys play naturally while he took amazing pics of them. Here is a little preview of the shoot. 

We had so much fun and they were so adorable, they were the cutest boys and gave us really good content. Thank you Andrea for letting us photograph your boys.

Last Sunday I asked my cousin if we could do her makeup and take pics and she said yes! I was super excited because she doesn’t wear a lot of makeup and we wanted to completely transform her. My sister, Nicole did the hair and was the photographer. We definitely need a new camera, we’re working on it! We did a few looks and she looked awesome! Had a lot of fun and we were thankful that the weather is warming up and it was actually sunny for once! I’ll be posting pics later once I finish touching them up! I have to go now, having a dance off with my sister (Just Dance 3 on Xbox lol) Bye for now!

Oh yeah, this sunday we’re supposed to be doing makeup on Andrea’s sister Amy. I’m thinking it’ll be next sunday though. But I can’t wait for it! Going to be really fun.

This is something we were trying out. My friend Ryan, asked me to do a photo shoot  of his friend Lauren. He wanted to make a Composite card, we did about 4 or 5 looks from natural to smokey for it.

I love the umbrella in this.

This one is my fav. It kind of reminds me of X-Tina in her Dirrty stage. This is the picture used on the front of her Comp Card.

All in all the shoot was good. We got our pics for the comp card. I’ll be posting the comp card in another post. So that’s if for now cya!

I did a photo shoot for a band with a female lead singer, Skye. We had a lot of fun,  and we even had the privilege of hearing them play a few songs. She wanted a smokey eye look with a cat eye. The pics turned out great.

I had to cut and paste this pic so It’s not the best quality. Credits to A.C.E. Photography and my sister Nicole for doing the hair.