Have you ever had homemade gnocchi?
Have you ever had homemade gnocchi made by an Italian?
If not put it on your bucket list.
Sacha has loved pasta since he was old enough to eat. He would cry for pasta and literally wanted it breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My mother in law was shocked that we would even think to make him pasta for breakfast. There was a children's book called Strega Nona, and one of the repetitive lines in the book, "Pasta, pasta, pasta pot make me some pasta nice and hot for it is time for us to sup, pasta, pasta, pasta pot." I read that book so often that I still can remember the lines.
Last night Sacha's Italian Girfriend from Verona made her Nona's gnocchi recipe. they were light as air. Amazing. Sacha made a Roquefort and walnut sauce.
I was happy to set the table!
Sacha's Italian Girlfriend's Nona's Recipe
One big dark-skinned potato peeled one potato per person
Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender
Mash the potatoes until they are smooth, creamy, luscious wonder
Then put the creamy luscious wonder on a floured cloth and knead
and knead,
with more sifted flour and salt,
and knead, and knead and knead until the dough bounces back.
Nothing more than potatoes, flour, and salt
and a ton of kneading.
Take a handful of dough and roll it into a long snake on the floured cloth
Cover the snake roll with a cloth and roll another until all the dough is rolled into snakes.
Then cut the dough with a knife into bite-size pieces.
With a fork roll forward and back to make soft ridges in the dough.
Cover the bite-size gnocchi "pillows" with a floured cloth.
Yes, you will have plenty of clothes to wash afterward.
Then gently put some of the gnocchi in boiling salted water when they float to the top take them out with a slotted spoon and add more gnocchi to boil in the pan.
Add sauce and devour.
Died and gone to heaven is worth saying.
Making pasta-loving pasta
They found each other happily.
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