{"id":208,"date":"2007-03-10T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T02:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/meatballs-and-gnocchi\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T19:51:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T03:51:45","slug":"meatballs-and-gnocchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/meatballs-and-gnocchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Meatballs and Gnocchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/meatballs-gnocchi.jpg\" title=\"meatballs-gnocchi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image207\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/meatballs-gnocchi.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"meatballs-gnocchi.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s gourmet meal consisted of homemade gnocchi (Italian-style potato dumplings) and meatballs simmered in a simple marinara sauce. This was our first attempt at making gnocchi and (if I do say so myself) they were wonderful. The ground chicken and turkey meatballs, however, came from the frozen foods section of the supermarket. Although the meatballs were OK, we&#8217;re sure we could do better &#8212; and will next time using freshly ground beef and sweet pork sausage. I&#8217;ll probably add this meal to our <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/vernas-stuff\/vernas-recipes\/\">recipe pages<\/a> when we make the entire meal from fresh ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>The gnocchi are made by first baking a couple of potatoes (about a pound&#8217;s worth). When the potatoes cool down, scoop out the potato and discard the skins. Mash the potatoes and mix with an egg and flour. To make the individual gnocchi, roll about a heaping tablespoon in your hands (use flour so the potato doesn&#8217;t stick to your hands). When the gnocchi are ready, drop them into boiling water. When the gnocchi float to the top, they are done. Scoop them out using a slotted spoon into serving bowls. Ladle the meatballs and sauce over the gnocchi and garnish with a little Romano or Parmesan cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image for a larger view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s gourmet meal consisted of homemade gnocchi (Italian-style potato dumplings) and meatballs simmered in a simple marinara sauce. This was our first attempt at making gnocchi&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}