May 7th
2008
With a little parcel from Rome arriving earlier this year (thanks to my dear friend Hande) came a perhaps inconspicuous but nevertheless very useful tool, it has become indispensable in my kitchen and I use it - I kid you not - almost once every week. Know it? Have it? Use it? What for?
I believe this is to make the sspecific structure on gnocchi...
what do you use it for?
Gnocchi?
I don't have this tool... I simply use a fork :o)
hmmm... to roll gnocci?
If have seen something like this on our last trip to Verona, but don't know its name. You have been making a lot of Gnocchi lately, haven't you?
A butter ball maker?
I recognize it, but I'll give others a chance. ;)
Yes, I know it. It's called a "riga-gnocchi" and it is used to create those furrows (lines) on your handmade, well, gnocchi. You form them with your palms (or whichever technique you prefer) and roll them gently over the grooved surface. Enhances the gnocchi-salsa-adhesion!
Have it and use it - a gnocchi board :-)
i bought one these in italy when i was last there, to make gnocchi...absolutely fabulous...wow, you make gnocchi so often?
i would say it's for making gnocci, although i have always been too lazy to make my own... my soap dish don't look dissimilar, though ;-)
i think it's a butter ball roller
it's a pasta board.
My first thought was: this is a wash board - but I cannot imagine, that a wash board might be useful in the kitchen?
Now I think, you need it for preparing a special kind of Italian food - and I am sure you will introduce us a new recipe, where you can explain your new tool, right?
First idea: butter ball roller. But I can’t imagine that you roll your butter every week (and Hande sends it from italy), so: gnocchi board (never heard of).
I recognized it instantly as a gnocchi paddle! But do you really make gnocchi every week? If so, I'd love to live in your house!
you have to reveal us the recipe of your gnocchi if it really is so delicious that you make it every week. it must be;)
LudmillaB is right, it' called Rigagnocchi and it's a board to give them their traditional pattern. Of course an ordinary fork would do just fine, but this neat little tool makes the whole procedure so much more fun ;)
I could imagine using it to transfer things from a cutting board to a pan, but I'm wondering what you use it for.