Valentine's Day Menu: 3 Exclusive Recipes!

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Happy YASSSletter Thursday Gingis!

We are currently in our second week here in Israel, enjoying our time with family and watching our baby girl grow! We just returned from an incredible 3 day culinary trip to Western Galilee in Northern Israel where we met with restaurant owners & ate their incredible Arabic food (had the best Knafeh of our life!!!), tasted wines from upcoming small batch vineyards, met goats milked for cheese making, watched the Mediterranean get stormy on the Akko coast line, feasted and roasted coffee from scratch with a Bedouin family, and experienced an eco-village at the very top of a olive & lemon tree covered mountain. Truthfully, the most incredible part of this trip were the people. We met  people from all different backgrounds, living in harmony in Northern Israel and that was the most powerful and mind opening experience. 

As we settle back into our routine here in Central Israel, Zikki and I have been talking about how grateful we are amidst all the tragedy in the world at this moment. There really are no words for what happened in Turkey/Syria this week. We are sending love and big prayers to everyone effected by this tragedy.

This week's newsletter is focused on recipes that will feed and nourish our dearest ones just in time for Valentine's Day.  Zikki and I decided that we would create recipes for one another this year. My request? Something LIGHT & FRESH. Zikki's request? Something DECADENT & COZY. So whether you are celebrating with your partner, your best friends, or your family - these recipes are light, loving, and absolutely beautiful.  So without further ado, the agenda is as such:

1. ❤️ Valentine's Challah Recipe

2. 🍊 Light & Fresh: Zikki's Citrus Steak Salad Recipe

3. 🧀 Decadent & Cozy: Purple Gnocchi w. Gorgonzola Sauce Recipe

4. 🏈 Bonus Recipe: Super Bowl Sunday Buffalo Chicken Pita Pizza!

❤️ Valentine's Challah 

Hi you all! This red beetroot challah shaped like heart is the best gift you can give to your love. This challah is made with organic beetroots, organic raw honey (instead of sugar), free-ranged egg and extra virgin olive oil. I gave mine to my gorgeous wife. Happy Valentine’s!

🍊 Zikki's Citrus Steak Salad

This year for Valentine's Day, Zikki asked me what I want to eat and I told her - I want something FRESH and LIGHT! This Citrus Steak Salad hits all the points. Its seasonal - using a variety of beautiful and colorful citrus, and loaded with spicy wild arugula, crunch fennel, and a perfectly seared black pepper crusted steak. Finished with a three herb chimichurri that pulls it all together. Hope you love this salad as much as I did! It is the perfect dish to pair with the Valentine's Challah. 

🧀 Purple Gnocchi w. Gorgonzola Sauce 

This dish defines COMFORTING & COZY. If you are looking for a dish to satiate your taste buds and finish the Valentine's Day  meal with a YASSS! - there is nothing cuter nor tastier than these gorgeous tiny purple gnocchi served a Gorgonzola cream sauce. I went to the market over the weekend and I saw a beautiful stand of potatoes. I bought a few varieties, one of them was these little purple potatoes (perfectly in theme for Valentine's Day) which I immediately decided to make gnocchi with. However, you can definitely make them with yellow potatoes! It will taste almost the same. The sauce here is made with Italian Gorgonzola D.O.P and chopped walnuts. It is a very easy quick sauce that wonderfully complements the purple gnocchi.

🏈 Super Bowl Buffalo Chicken Pita Pizza

Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend and I've got the best munchies for you! Instead of going through the hassle of making a 48hr pizza dough, just make pita and slice it in half (you can also buy the pita if you’re feeling especially lazy 😉). Load the tiny pizza base with silky, sexy, blue cheese sauce, fried chicken tossed in hot sauce, and bake to perfection. Once toasted and crunchy, finish with chucks of blue cheese, hot sauce, and gorgeous celery & carrot slaw. Insanely delish. YASSS!

Hope you have a weekend full of YASSS! Until next Thursday Gingis.

Love, Ben xx

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