A Gnocchi Dinner…

January 18, 2008 | 7:11 PM

In keeping with my Italian cooking theme lately, for the last two nights I’ve experimented with gnocchi, an Italian pasta much like a dumpling. I was inspired by Giada de Laurentiis, who made some sort of cinnamon-sugar sauce to cover her gnocchi. Here’s what it looked like:

It wasn’t great, so I thought that I might add a little salt to the cinnamon-sugar concoction. That made it worse. Much, much worse. So it went in the garbage.

Then, tonight I decided to cook the rest of the gnocchi and go genuinely Italian with it. Throw in a little Prego tomato and basil sauce, feta, romano, and parmesan cheese, and you’ve got yourself something worth eating. And for a side, I made a grilled cheese sandwich. Wonderful! And as you can see, it looked much, much better.

And even though I’m not sure I care for gnocchi as opposed to other pastas, it wasn’t bad this way.  For more in my Cooking with Joe series, click here.

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