The recipe names are funny. This is a personal favorite: naked ravioli. Naked? Yes, they have no pasta dough around them, so the classic spinach and ricotta filling is simply made into a gnocchi-like dumpling. In other areas, they are known as strozzapreti, “priest-chokers,” but strozzapreti can also be a long hand-rolled spaghetti-like pasta, which I would…
Diva’s Dirty Little Secret- Gnocchi in 10 minutes
I am not a kitchen Nazi. I also use short-cuts when I can or teach people how to make life easier and simpler. One of my favorite tricks in the kitchen I learned living here is to use instant mashed potatoes for gnocchi. I had bought some incredibly tender potato gnocchi in the grocery store…
Pleasures of Pumpkin-again
pumpkin gnocchi with sage, butter and parmesan With the crisp fall weather holding before the wet winter sets in,I am having a love affair with pumpkin. I am lucky to not have to buy whole pumpkins,but slices, as I need them. I find myself cooking pumpkin in many ways. So far I have done the grilled…