It felt good, for once, to surrender to the unyielding demands of making gnocchi.
"You think Irene's mother taught her how to make gnocchi like that?"
Making gnocchi is itself an act of antiarrogance.
But making gnocchi from scratch is not a bad meditative exercise on a stay-at-home winter day.
It has been specially identified by Delia Smith as being the best potato with which to make gnocchi.
I'm going to make gnocchi with different sauces - a beetroot sauce, a pesto.
Taros alone are too starchy to make light gnocchi, so I cut them with russet potatoes.
In making gnocchi, you need to add enough flour to help the dough come together but not enough to make it leaden.
Trabocchi must now get his hands sticky with flour and potato as he teaches me to make gnocchi.
Ms. Bastianich is a solid and no-nonsense chef who gave a good demonstration of making gnocchi.