Comments on: Italy Roundtable: Zen and the Art of Making Gnocchi

By: antonio

antonio — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:35:36 +0000

What do you know that could haave been my potatoes, my grandma does some mean gnocchi.

btw there’s no river in Avezzano, thy’re grown on the drained lake Fucino

By: Laney

Laney — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:49:51 +0000

Thanks for the great post and fun read! I’m a pretty decent cook but one of the only things I failed miserably at was making gnocchi – I ended up with a pot of water filled with potato mush- and have never tried again. Now I know I can blame it on the type of potato!

By: Kathryn Voskuil

Kathryn Voskuil — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:07:02 +0000

How wonderful! I enjoyed every word of your rooted blog. And your accompanying pictures are perfect! Like Sarah, I too was curious about the music!!

By: Celia Prosecchino

Celia Prosecchino — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:58:08 +0000

This makes me long for pesto again!

By: JoAnn Locktov

JoAnn Locktov — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:52:30 +0000

Such a sweet post, I can totally relate. I tried and failed to make gnocchi with California potatoes and thought it was me until a chef from Italy told me that California potatoes have too much moisture and you need to “dry” them in the oven first. I finally resorted to making Gnocchi alla Romana thereby avoiding the potato issue completely!!

By: Sue Pownall

Sue Pownall — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:31:22 +0000

ha ha glad they turned out fine despite the 19 year wait :)

By: Marilyn Kearney

Marilyn Kearney — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:11:57 +0000

Well done Rebecca, can’t wait to get back to Italy to try it…won’t even THINK of doing it with Australian potatoes; methinks it wouldn’t be the same somehow. By the way, just to be pedantic, what number flour did you use ‘O’. ‘OO’, or perhaps something else??…

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:39:47 +0000

@Shelley, your sense of humor never fails to delight me. I can’t lay my eyes on Hello Kitty tschotske without thinking of you.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:48:40 +0000

@Mary…nothing like feeling showed up by a Connecticut girl to get me in the kitchen :D

By: rebecca

rebecca — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:47:54 +0000

@Sarah…I’m feeling very scattered with my mind in a million places lately, and my music is reflecting that. After a good 15 minutes of indecision, I went with my standby: an All Songs Considered podcast!