I have become a person
Posted by: Liz | From: February 26, 2004
I have become a person who breaks up her week by reality shows. Reality shows and "Alias." Tonight is "Apprentice" night and all should celebrate in it's glory. Seriously. Right up there with ANTM.I know they have whole cookbooks and stuff dedicated to making pasta from scratch, and I know there are lots of grandmas and Martha Stewarts who have special pasta machines, and I know that it is considered an art up there somewhere with creamy risotto, and souffles that don't fall.
But what the hell. I made some KICK ASS risotto last week, so what's a little potato gnocchi? J and I were feeling ambitious and took on that little project last night. Honestly, we didn't even categorize it into "project." It was "quick dinner." The recipe was like, mash some potatoes, mix in some spinach, an egg yolk, and some flour. Make some balls, boil the balls. Five minutes here, ten minutes there and BANG there's some top notch potato spinach gnocchi.
I have never in my life put anything more disgusting and less food-like in my mouth than these repulsive balls of mush. They were exactly like eating hot gobs of paper mache paste with lawn clippings. It was a sad moment. We had to dig to the back recesses of the cabinet and find some dried pasta to eat for dinner. There is little more disappointing than working really hard on a nice dinner and having it turn out like utter poo.
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