To represent my Italian heritage, I made gnocchi for dinner tonight. Mashing the potatoes was hard work and my host mother actually had to go out and buy a potato masher! It ended up not working very well, so we put the potatoes in a strainer and used spoons to push the potato through the mesh. It took a little while, but those were the finest mashed potatoes I have ever seen. When we made the gnocchi I apparently didn't use enough flour and all the individual pieces re-combined into one huge piece. We all worked together to separate the dough as quickly as possible so we could have all the gnocchi finish cooking at the same time. It turned out really well and was quite fun. We also made salad and tamago gohan to go with the gnocchi. Everything was really good and everyone seemed quite happy with the meal.
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| kneading the dough |
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| rolling it out |
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| cutting the rolls into individual pieces |
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| taking the gnocchi out of the pot after it had been cooked |
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