The great thing about cooking is that the more often you try a recipe, the better you get at it. As long as you\u2019re not making Spinach and Ricotta Gnudi.<\/p>\n
According to Wikipedia, gnudi (pronounced \u201cnude-ee\u201d) are gnocchi-like dumplings made with ricotta cheese and semolina. The result, Wikipedia claims, are light, “pillowy” dumplings.<\/p>\n
Sound delicious? Yeah, I thought so, too. But what Wikipedia neglects to mention<\/em><\/strong> is that gnudi are little pillows of punishment for the person trying to create them.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve attempted Spinach and Ricotta Gnudi three times in the last two weeks. A lot of ricottas have died in vain, and here\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned:<\/p>\n Attempt #1:<\/strong> When a recipe says to dry the cooked spinach well before blending with the ricotta, they must mean to dry the spinach for two hours in an industrial-sized clothes dryer. Otherwise, when you boil the gnudi, you end up with spinach and ricotta soup.<\/p>\n Attempt #2:<\/strong> When a recipe says to hang the ricotta in cheesecloth to let it dry before blending with the spinach, they must mean to hang the bag of ricotta in front of an industrial-sized fan for two days. Otherwise, when you boil the gnudi, you end up with spinach and ricotta soup.<\/p>\n Attempt #3:<\/strong> When a recipe says to leave the gnudi in the fridge until a delicate skin forms around them, they must mean to leave the gnudi in the fridge for two weeks to mummify. Otherwise, when you boil the gnudi, you end up with spinach and ricotta soup.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve eaten three pots of spinach and ricotta soup. I don\u2019t like it. I also don\u2019t like the fact that the plural of gnudi is gnudi. That\u2019s just lazy. But maybe I\u2019m being irritable\u2014I\u2019m bloated from all the soup I\u2019ve been eating lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The great thing about cooking is that the more often you try a recipe, the better you get at it. As long as you\u2019re not making Spinach and Ricotta Gnudi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-bits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}