To tell the truth, as well as the MTC, I created this dish to wish happy birthday to a dear friend

Why poor but beautiful and good? An ironic birthday wishes for sister play on words that draws on a well-known Italian film of the 50s and the goodness of blue fish & co, often identified just as poor and not really beautiful. Poor because they are less noble than other fish, because the protagonists of many dishes of so-called "cucina povera", because they are less expensive but no less good.
This month we have introduced a major innovation for the MTC there will be measured both on a plate but on a specific ingredient, the chestnut and its derivatives, as proposed by Miss Pici and Chestnuts, subject to some important rules:
2. the theme is the poor kitchen: which, we all know, in this context means local cuisine, first and foremost, and cuisine based on ingredients that, at one time, or were at hand-in the woods, in the garden, in 'farmyard, the barn-or, if you bought, they were cheap.
The first idea that came to me is difficult to perform but I hope to achieve, in the meantime I propose a little something really easy. This time around I could not disappoint the expectations, everyone expected the anchovies from me and then that anchovies are!
To tell the truth, as well as the MTC, I created this dish to wish happy birthday to a dear friend who reaches today, little more than a month before the undersigned, the goal of the fifties and is known for its salty breakfast and often really daring, see sausages, polenta, tripe and lately even clams in the early morning, accompanied by delicious mini-stories! For those not familiar he is prof. Leonardo Romanelli, eclectic figure and volcanic landscape of Italian food and wine journalist, wine and food critic, writer of best-selling books and playwright, who has nicely done as a judge in the contest organized by Sabrina of Les Madeleines de Proust, FIFTH FOURTH REVOLUTION!
Breakfast birthday wishes for sister for virtual Leonardo, birthday wishes for sister because if you enjoy it only in pictures but dinner last night for my husband and myself, accompanied by Noctua, an excellent birthday wishes for sister lager, soft and spicy style Belgian ales produced by the brewing friends dell'Opificio of Crespina (unfortunately after a long photographic exposure, in the glass the beer is unrecognizable, there will be a trick to immobilize the foam?)
And now the recipe that I think is suitable for the challenge because it was drawn with products of the territory, or the Tuscan and especially with products that are simple and easy to find: the chestnut flour Amiata, the sheep's milk ricotta cheese factory of Follonica, the eggs Maremma, Siena garlic, extra virgin Tuscan olive oil, rosemary, inseparable companion of chestnut flour, birthday wishes for sister which comes from the hills of Castiglioncello, my Mediterranean, pepper from my garden, the black pepper even if it is Tuscan in Tuscan dishes never fails, the pine trees in St. Flushing, anchovies of Piombino, who once put in salt represent and have always been the land of fish and then also used in the country kitchen. A combination, therefore, sea, mountains, bush, garden and yard, it should go right? We loved it and I'm sure that Leonardo would have appreciated!
5-6 anchovy fillets of Piombino, salted cleaned and rinsed
Sift the flours, place them on a work surface, work them with the egg, cottage cheese, olive oil and salt, form a ball, let it rest in the fridge for at least half an hour, then take small heaps, lay them out and roll them on a pastry birthday wishes for sister to create the cylinders with a diameter of about an inch and cut into chunks.
Put the water to the fire, while the water comes to a boil, cook the garlic in a few tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a large frying pan, add the red pepper, a sprig of rosemary and a little broken 'peeled, birthday wishes for sister and anchovy fillets and let them melt over low heat.
Lightly salt the water, boil the dumplings, when they come to the surface, collect them with a slotted spoon and pour in the sauce cooking. Season them well, even throwing pine nuts, arrange on plates, a dribble of olive oil to raw if necessary, and a good grinding of black pepper (which is not in the photo but when we ate them we added it)
okay then say that you want me to win:))) pine nuts, red garlic and anchovies! I could eat them by themselves so already, let alone with the gnocchi with chestnut flour performed masterfully! I like every single birthday wishes for sister flavor that you put in the recipe, and you were really in theme chestnut, poor cooking and .. even Tuscan! you exceeded. big kiss! Reply Delete
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