gnocchi

gnocci
Originally uploaded by kattebelletje.

I've started reading lots of food blogs lately, and came across Nicoletta's La Cucina del Sole, a blog on italian cooking. She shows in a video how to make potato gnocchi with a butter and salvia sauce. Still inspired by this (and feeling jealous of her beautiful wooden gadget to make the small lines in the gnocchi dough with), a couple of days later I boiled some potatoes and waited for them to cool. Then, without checking her website, I added some flour, an egg, and did some kneading, but with my hands all sticky and gooey I couldn't quite watch the instructional video again. So I used the old fork and tried some lines there in a couple of gnocchi, cooked one portion and gave them to my daughter to eat, who really liked them. Then, today, I took the potato and flour dough out of the refrigerator, only to discover that the gluten had started to work and made the whole dough rather sticky. I added more flour and rolled them and did the old fork routine, again without watching the video, so this is how they turned out. The taste was quite nice, with some melted butter and leftover home made pesto - although I think they lost something in the waiting process! [who knows, perhaps I made a fatal mistake!] Only just now I found out I should have made them more cylinder-shaped, and press them on the inside of the fork instead of on the outside.... Never mind, I'll make gnocchi again soon and post new pictures to show my progress.