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19 Jan 2013

Don’t Cry Over Your Gnocchi (and other Homemade Pasta woes)

Last week, on a quest to re-ignite my inner chef extraordinaire, I decided to try a recipe for homemade Butternut Squash Gnocchi with Brown Butter and Sage .  It was a little daunting because the last time I ventured into the world of homemade pasta, it was a disastrous experience.  Seven years prior, Alan and I were having friends over for dinner.  I decided I wanted to WOW! them with an impressive menu of homemade ravioli but bit off more than I could chew.  There were a few tears shed but a few lessons learned too…

Lesson 1: Always, give new recipes a try first before attempting to have it headline a dinner party.  This was the first time I had ever attempted making this recipe and the first time I had ever attempted to make homemade pasta.

Lesson 2: When making fresh pasta, be sure to separate and layer pieces between wax paper.  Making them the night before and throwing them all together in a bowl makes for one big, clumpy mess!

Lesson 3: When in doubt, eat it anyways and laugh it off with a good glass of wine in hand.

The dinner party was a fun night, regardless of the plate of pasty-pasta disaster.  But homemade pasta making was not something I wanted to try again anytime soon! So, 7 years have passed and with this year’s resolution to break free from my culinary rut, I decided to give it another go.

While, yes, a tad time consuming, the recipe was fairly easy to make.  Just roast the squash, garlic and potato; mix together in a food processor; shape dough into several long rope-like strands, cut and boil.  Oh ya, then toss gently in butter and sage.  Y-U-M-mmmm! The results were fantastic! I conquered the homemade pasta dough and will not be waiting another 7 years to make it again.

Recipe: Winter Squash Gnocchi with Brown Butter Sage, from Food & Wine

Enjoyed with: Puro  (malbec, syrah and cabernet blend), from Argentina

 

Rope-like strands of gnocchi dough
Rope-like strands of gnocchi dough
Cut dough into cubes.
Cut dough into cubes.
Tossing in butter sage
Tossing in butter sage

 

 

 

Homemade Pasta Making Success!!
Homemade Pasta Making Success!!

Foodie Fridays is a weekly blog series from Michelle Pitman, attempting to remove the stigma and the labeling of food that tastes good as being bad for you; to show how supportive choices can incorporate all categories of food and that balanced eating means you are satisfying your physical needs as well as the emotional ones.   Bon Appetit!!

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