I had some difficulty with these gnocchi. Red and yellow bell pepper sauce with sausages.The finished dish was far greater than the sum of its parts and the ham/mushroom combo was delightful in the light, creamy sauce. It also suggests onions or shallots and I opted for shallots. The recipe calls for cremini or button mushrooms and I opted for the former. I did appreciate Ms Hazan’s specificity around cooking the mushrooms and was quite pleased to get precisely the results she described in the exact amount of time she suggested. I should also note that I didn’t make my own fettuccine and used a fresh from the Italian market version instead. 195 - I don’t have a lot of experience cooking from Marcella’s books but I do recall her recipes to be especially prescriptive so I selected this one, in part, because it wasn’t overly verbose therefore it didn’t demand much of my time in advance.
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