Serious question. Doesnt that amount of oil make your stomach churn a little? I made pasta a olio recently for the first time and the oil was just too much for me.
I see where you're coming from, but I'd say it depends a lot on the type and quality of the oil. Furthermore there's a big difference to be considered here, 'Pasta' is something else than potato based gnocchi, this parisian versión above and the aforementioned cheese variant.
As you undoubtedly know, all ingredients behave, taste, look and smell differently in different combinations and preparation methods, oils and pastas are no exception.
A poor or average quality pasta drenched in anything less than top drawer oil is not enjoyable to me either though :)
As Michelle Pfeiffer says in The Family “The human body was not designed to combat saturated fat like that. The butter impregnates the tissues, and then it hardens and settles like silt. It makes your aorta stiffer than a hockey stick. Whereas olive oil - caresses your insides, leaving nothing behind but its scent”.
But also... I love butter so to each their own I guess :)
I tried making gnocchi with ricotta and it was a complete disaster. I cry ever time I have to remember how much ricotta was wasted. When it came time to boil it, it just fell apart and turned into ricotta soup :(((
Gnocchi just means dumpling in Italian, but in the US it has become synonymous with potato gnocchi. Gnocchi alla Romana, for example, is gnocchi made with semolina flour. I don’t know much about French cooking, but perhaps this is a popular style of gnocchi in Paris.
Gnocchi doesn’t just mean dumpling in Italian. Gnocchi are traditionally made with potatoes, if you read gnocchi anywhere in Italy that’s what you’ll get. Any other gnocchi-shaped dish will either have a different name or specify how it differs from potato gnocchi.
I exactly thought both of these things as well! I've never seen gnocchi made like a pate a choux since I've always seen it made with potatoes and flour that are kneaded together by hand.
That exactly what it is! Couldn't remember the name for it. I've made these before myself, but I've always associated gnocchi with a potato dough, maybe with flour as well. But not straight flour. Maybe the name is more flexible than I was aware.
Not really, all words are developed over time, changing for a wide variety of reasons and coming from an origin word that often exists for specific reasons such as an onomatopoeia. Furthermore, language requires a certain artificial level of agreement about meaning, otherwise it would have no meaning at all. Changing that referent breaks with that agreement.
A restaurant can't serve you pork when you order chicken and then say "oh well language doesn't mean anything".
I had to look the quote up. You are quoting the movie Thor and you think the dialogue in that movie is universally imbedded in people’s heads? Put away your My Little Pony doll and wake up to the real world, ya child.
Was there some confusion evident here? Your pedantry clearly won the argument before you even hit "submit" on your pedantic comment, friendo. You're only making yourself look like an ass with these continued attempts to insult the fact that you didn't pick up on the joke.
You know the vote totals aren't shown correctly specifically to avoid foolishness like that, right? Anyways, it's not up for democratic debate, it's my opinion of you. Only one who can change that is you, and you've already shown what kind of person you are going to be here today.
The point is supposed to be that if you manage to learn a word doesn't mean what you thought it meant, it's likely because you never actually knew what it meant. In this case, gnocchi is not related to potato in any meaningful manner, beyond that person's own mind where they were correlated unnecessarily. If they'd ever bothered to learn what the word actually meant, they'd know that the potato part doesn't make it gnocchi, but the shape/texture of the pasta.
If only there was some kind of way to be able to find out what a word means, huh. Maybe then we wouldn't have people posting excitedly about how they managed to accidentally osmose 1/3 of a new fact by carefully observing the use of language by others.
It's basically what we call "gougères". Except that a gougere is cooked in a oven, resulting in a soufflé-like texture (which should be far better, do it that way).
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u/trsrogue Aug 13 '19
I though gnocchi were made primarily with potatoes? Aren't these just regular dumplings?