Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby [aka the gnocchi failure of 2009]
Sometimes you just bomb in the kitchen. It’s important to remember these moments as learning experiences so that you don’t repeat these food faux pas in front of a dinner party of people you are trying to feed (and impress).
I would like to blame this food failure on…….PASSOVER. That’s right, a Jewish holiday. Because 8 days of grain deprivation causes the brain to think it can outsmart nature. And I almost believed that potato starch could replace flour. I should have known that potato is not a winning substitution for the good stuff. On Saturday night, a potato vodka tonic tasted barfy. That was hint #1.
Here is hint #2.
A photo journey of the Passover potato gnocchi disaster:
mashin
hot tots
then comes the egg
added potato starch and a dough was formed
rollin
little gnocchi nuggets
a hot mess
MORAL OF THE STORY: BE OVER, PASSOVER
April 14th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I NEED TO BONE THE CHEF!!!!!!!!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I always thought gnocchi was made of potato… and who is anonymous?
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:59 pm
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