Gnocchi
Place potatos in a pot, covered with water. Bring the water to boiling,a nd turn the heat to medium. Cook the potatos until soft, about 45 minutes. Remove the potatoes, and plunge them into cold water.
Place a tray out, for preparing the dough. Unpeel each potato, discard the peels, and put the potato through a potato ricer, spreading the riced potatos over the tray.
In a bowl scramble the eggs with a fork, and add salt to taste. Drizzle the eggs over the potatos.
Scoop the measured flour over the potatos-and-eggs.
Combine and kneed with hands. Turn it over, and work briefly, until just mixed. Turn out onto a floured workspace.
Kneed the dough, adding flour as needed. Don't work the dough too long. Stop when the ingredients are combined, the dough is somewhat reilient, and the dough is moist but not sticky.
Divide the dough into as many portions as you are preparing servings. Cover all but one of the pieces of dough with plastic wrap, wax paper or other cover, so they don't dry out.
Start rolling the piece in front of you, on the floured surface, into a playdoh-type snake. Once it gets to medium length, cut in half, and roll each separately, until each snake is about 1/2" diameter.
Cut each half-snake ten-twelve times, so each piece is about half-an-inch long. Place each piece on a lightly floured tray, so that no two pieces touch.
Remove the next piece of (covered) dough, and start rolling the snakes and cutting more pieces, until you have funished turning the dough into gnocchi.
Boil a large pot of water. You don't need to salt the water. While the water is boiling, you should prepare your sauce for the gnocchi.
When your sauce is ready, you can start dropping the gnocchi (a few at a time, so they do not touch until they have started to cook) into the pot. Stir once or twice as the gnocchi cook. Once all the gnocchi have finished cooking tehy will be floating at the surface of the pot (about 3 minutes).
Drain the gnocchi. Toss with sauce, or oil and spices. Serve immediately.
Serves: ??
Preparation time: About 2 hours