Friday 1 February 2013

Sauce Series - Gnocchi

Sauces are the splendor and the glory of French cooking.
- Julia Child

Our sauce adventure continues as we explore another strain of mother sauces: tomato sauce. A large array of variations of tomato sauces can be made by adding herbs, seasonings and other vegetables to the basic recipe. Tomato sauce is predominantly used in pastas, hence alongside our sauce we made a potato gnocchi. There is indeed a very unique and worthwhile experience to be found in handmade pasta.

Our lab in the pictures:

 
We had boiled potatoes, pressed them through a colandar as a makeshift ricer, and mixed flour with them to create a dough out of them to be cut and molded into gnocchi.
 
 
Our simmering sauce, en route to deliciousness.
 
 
Final destination: gnocchi.
 

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