fkamiah17,
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Why did I think it was a good idea to make gnocchi from scratch?

bobjmsn,
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@fkamiah17 You had nothing better to do, and fancied a challenge?

MostlyTato,
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@fkamiah17
Forgive my ignorance, but what is this substance?

fkamiah17,
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@MostlyTato Gnocchi? They're little balls of potato, like this 🔽

MostlyTato,
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@fkamiah17
Potato balls! How could I not like them? Well, mostly 😎🥔😂

fkamiah17,
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@MostlyTato They're lush, especially when you make them fresh. Imagine the inside of properly cooked fluffy roast potatoes, with sauce on. 🤤

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@fkamiah17
Could you make them with sweet potatoes?

Greenseer,
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@MostlyTato @fkamiah17 There are lots of sweet potato gnocchi recipes out there that look like they'd be delish if someone else would make them for me 😂

fkamiah17,
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@Greenseer @MostlyTato I'd have thought they were insufficiently starchy? Wouldn't they just turn to mush when you cook them?
Not like I'll be doing any experiments to find out 😉😂

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@fkamiah17 @Greenseer @MostlyTato

Perhaps, do as I do. I make my mash using skinned baked potatoes rather than boiled.

Keeping water away from the potatoes makes the mash more flavoursome and much smoother.

#TopTip

fkamiah17,
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@TCMuffin @Greenseer @MostlyTato Nice idea, if I ever actually bothered to make mash at home 🤣
It's one of the very few things I refuse to do, mostly because of the mess, although I stopped eating mash for decades because of a childhood trauma incident involving an angry and unwilling to cook mother who was unimpressed with mashing.
Never forget.

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  • fkamiah17,
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    @Greenseer @MostlyTato I always think I like capers but every time I cook with them I end up regretting it 😬

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    @Greenseer @MostlyTato It was only when I lived in Italy that I got to like them. I think I may have been bamboozled by people who know how to cook with them properly and a creeping middle-class pretension when I got back 😆

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    @Greenseer @MostlyTato Right?? Consider how I felt, after most of a decade in the Med, with pretty much guaranteed sunshine for 300 days a year, and (at least in most of the places I lived) zero pollution, coming back to London in October 😫

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    @Greenseer @MostlyTato Tbh, D, I don't think I ever have fully recovered! Return was a necessity then circumstances made it impossible to leave, then Brexit.
    I got to Wales though, so there's definitely an upside 🥰

    MostlyTato,
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    @fkamiah17 @Greenseer
    At least you got to Wales.

    fkamiah17,
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    @MostlyTato @Greenseer Indeed. That's what most incomers say, in my experience :baner:

    MostlyTato,
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    @fkamiah17 @Greenseer the Welsh. As close to native British as you can get (along with Cornish and Manx).

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    fkamiah17,
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    @HeatherMJ @saxicola
    Absolutely why? You're just showing off 😂

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    @saxicola @HeatherMJ Dunno if you've heard, but they have these things called shops now? Very handy for buying noodles 😂

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  • fkamiah17,
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    @Greenseer Right? That's the last time I introduce spontaneity into my life on a Saturday morning.
    Never
    Again 😂

    JackTheCat,
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    @fkamiah17 Crack on lass!

    fkamiah17,
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    @JackTheCat Oh, it's done. Now the kitchen's covered in a thin layer of flour. At least I remembered to do it before I got the charcoals out 😂
    Did you get any kip?

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    @fkamiah17 I think so if that makes any possible sense? I want photographic evidence of your pasta adventures! 😋

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