The last chore we set ourselves yesterday was to make a batch of gnocchi. I haven't been a big fan of this carb rich food much in my life so far. It will never be tried again.
You wouldn't think it would be too hard to make; boil potatoes, remove the skin and mash and mix with flour. Perhaps it may have turned out better if we'd done it this way on our first attempt at making the stuff... but no, let's make stuffed stuff. Lets also add some pumpkin for good measure. And lets made double the batch for good measure, that way we won't need to make it again for a while.
We never set a stop watch to see how much of our lives went into the project. We guess about 3 hours prep and an hour cleaning up. Cleaning up after making hard, heavy revolting little chunks of dough is like watching someone else kiss the girl you've had a crush on for ages.
We've done a lot of cleaning up over the last couple of days. That's the thing about this challenge, when you can't trust others to provide you with food from the area, you've got to do the hard work yourselves. Cleaning up tonight wasn't so bad. The pasta maker we christened tonight works like a charm. It is a bit messy and we will have to figure out the best method of "up sizing" the batch quantity so it's worth making such a mess.
Something else we noticed is how tired we both were. It felt like Christmas afternoon siesta time all afternoon.
And chocolate smells really good when you aren't allowed to taste it.
Merry Xmas
S&K
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