Sweet Potato Gnocchi
with Savory Sage Cream Sauce
Serves 6
Gnocchi:
1 medium sweet potato, peeled and sliced into 1-inch cubes
¼ c Unsweetened Eden Soy Milk
1 ¼ c Eden Soft White Wheat Pastry Flour
½ tsp garlic powder
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
¼ tsp Eden Sea Salt
Cream sauce:
2 Tbl Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
¼ c minced shallots
1 tsp dried sage
3 Tbl organic, unbleached flour
2 c Unsweetened Eden Soy Milk
½ c water
½ tsp Eden Sea Salt
1 pinch freshly ground black pepper
Peel the sweet potato, cut into 1-inch chunks and boil in water for 15-20 minutes until fork tender. Drain and place the sweet potatoes in a mixing bowl. Add the soy milk, salt, garlic powder and nutmeg. Mash with a potato masher. Add the flour and stir to combine. Knead with your hands for a couple of minutes or so to form a dough. Add more flour if needed to form the dough.
Place the dough on a floured surface. Divide into quarters. Using your hands, roll out ¼ of the dough into a long rope-like stand. Cut into 1-inch pieces. Using your thumb, roll the pieces of dough against the back of a fork to form ridges in the dough. Repeat until all dough has been formed.
Bring 3 quarts of water to a boil and add a pinch of salt. Working in batches, place 12-15 gnocchi in the boiling water. When gnocchi float to the surface, boil another 2-3 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain. Repeat in batches until all gnocchi are cooked.
To prepare the sauce, heat oil in a large skillet and sauté shallots for 2 minutes. Add the sage and flour, stirring constantly. Quickly whisk the soy milk and water into the flour mixture to avoid lumping. Season with sea salt, pepper and more sage, to taste. Place the gnocchi in the cream sauce and mix well before serving.
Note: Remaining dough can be stored in an airtight container in the freezer.
Compassion on Wheels
Ann Arbor, Michigan - Most people have heard of the poison lead water delivered to Flint, Michigan residents. Despite gross negligence, this criminal assault finds no one held accountable, and the populous abandoned and ignored. The many waterborne toxins have long-term and permanent effects that require care which transcends typical western medicine thinking and treatments. The people need and deserve knowledgeable, loving care.
Since 2017 the Rudolf Steiner Health Center has traveled to Flint to provide free, effective detox cleansing treatments to those affected, addressing the intestines, liver, kidneys, strengthening metabolism and the immune system. For the Steiner Health Center to be accessible, useful, and trusted by Flint residents, they purchased an ambulance. Before doing so, they were limited to caring for folks in churches and fields. Eden Foods helped sponsor this in a collaboration of compassion. The Flint Healing Mobile Unit ambulance was aptly named “Compassion on Wheels.”
Some techniques being used by the health center are liver compresses, footbaths, herbal teas, vitamin and mineral supplements, and good foods to support all the body systems. Flax seed, activated charcoal, bentonite clay, chlorella, yarrow, homeopathics, horsetail, milk thistle, dandelion, caraway, chicory, St. John’s wort, licorice and more are provided to detox and strengthen Flint residents.
On July 15, Eden Foods’ staff enjoyed the pleasure of meeting with The Rudolf Steiner Health Center staff and interns who are making this care happen. Through an existing internship program, working with medically and financially needy patients, they field a skillful, compassionate care crew.
Eden Foods is pleased to be associated with this work.
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