Sweet potato/ricotta gnocchi with asparagus, grilled portebello mushrooms and turkey chorizo.

It was our anniversary yesterday and we all mucked in and made a wonderful dinner together. It was amazing. All my in laws are foodies which is a real blessing in my eyes. We had picked up some lovely stuff at the market to have too so it was good from the get go. 

The gnocchi was made with roasted sweet potato and ricotta and served with a sage brown butter. Heaven! We had steamed asparagus on the side, topped with grilled mushroom slices that had been marinated in balsamic vinegar and olive oil and garlic. We had come home from the market with some turkey chorizo sausages and we had a few slices each of these too! So satisfying to see the food, chose it, bring it home, cook it and eat it.

There was also a lovely rustic bread from the market, rye bread, with caraway and poppy seeds. We had some balsamic vinegar and olive oil to dip it into, in which I had tried to make pretty hearts but wasn't too successful.

This one looked like a 'bottom' apparently! That's what you get for trying to be fancy!

My sister in law was an absolute whiz in the kitchen and whipped up some chocolate souffles for dessert while there was a flurry of other madness going on! I recall her making a sort of custard, melting some chocolate to make it chocolatey instead of using cocoa powder and even melting chocolate and mixing it with butter and setting it in balls which were then put in the middle of the souffle mix. They were made in individual ramequins and when you dug into it there was an amazing lava centre inside the pillowy, silky body. Wow! We had a little side of her home made mint ice cream and cherries. The mint ice cream was a cream colour, with tiny flecks of green in it, not like the bright green stuff you find commercially! She had steeped mint leaves in warm cream, oh my goodness, yum!

I had some sparkling eldeflower juice in a wine glass to top it all off while the others had a wonderful red wine. Happy anniversary!