Heading to a party where there will be lots of wine, and not sure what to take? How about some simple savory cookies - biscotti and sables made for wine pairing?
A few months back, both Gourmet (RIP) and Saveur featured simple homemade gnocchi recipes - and I got the bug to try this for dinner one night. We're big fans of making our own pasta, probably because kneading the dough is so therapeutic. But gnocchi is a little different - it's not like I can run it through a pasta machine or anything. Pillowy soft requires a different touch.
Our first weekend with Timmy was a whirlwind of productivity. We got ambitious and worked on 2 different kinds of sausage, and Todd also cured pancetta and bacon! I've covered the bacon recipe before, and Pancetta is pretty close but I'm going to list it too. All of the recipes in this post come from Ruhlman/Polcyn's Charcuterie.
