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    Quote Originally Posted by Primare View Post
    Raisin grape and french cheeses.

    Interesting, Ivo... Grapes look good. No bread or crackers, though?

    I couldn't eat all that nice cheese without one or the other - and also a good bottle of red!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    WAY too much cheese, Roy-boy... And not even the right kind!!



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    Parmesan's on the shopping list but I would have had as much of that as I had of the mature cheddar, I was in a cheesy mood..

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    Mmm... Enjoy what you enjoy, but the traditional idea is to taste the pasta!

    When you go on your travels again, you should visit Italy, and in particular the city of Bologna, where you'll see how pasta should be cooked and eaten

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Mmm... Enjoy what you enjoy, but the traditional idea is to taste the pasta!

    When you go on your travels again, you should visit Italy, and in particular the city of Bologna, where you'll see how pasta should be eaten

    Marco.
    Yes, I quite fancy going back to Italy. Have spent a dirty weekend in Turin where I discovered Gnocchi & the Po


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    My only experience of Gnocci is of damp soggy white lumps of indeterminate flavour.

    I'm sure it can be done to taste and eat well, but nothing pleasant has come my way yet.

    There again, I don't like dumplings. They also are damp soggy white lumps .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    Yes, I quite fancy going back to Italy. Have spent a dirty weekend in Turin where I discovered Gnocchi & the Po

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian7633 View Post
    Nice girls, unusual names
    Was some threesome Ian

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    My only experience of Gnocci is of damp soggy white lumps of indeterminate flavour.

    I'm sure it can be done to taste and eat well, but nothing pleasant has come my way yet.

    There again, I don't like dumplings. They also are damp soggy white lumps .
    I’m with you. I don’t get gnocchi at all - tasteless balls of soggy slop!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beobloke View Post
    I’m with you. I don’t get gnocchi at all - tasteless balls of soggy slop!
    I expect we'll both be told off by Marco now!

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    Haha - no, you like what you like!

    However.... If they're home-made and cooked properly, they should be firm, not sloppy, and simply act as a 'carrier' for the lovely tasty sauce (traditionally pesto), served with them, which should also be home-made.

    Bought pesto in jars is a very poor relation of the real thing (just as indeed is all bought mashed or processed potato, which of course gnocchi are traditionally made from). For pesto, you need to use fresh basil and very good extra-virgin olive oil, to generate the right flavour.

    Oh, and of course it goes without saying that if you've only ever had supermarket gnocchi (which ARE tasteless balls of soggy slop), then you *haven't* had gnocchi!

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    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

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    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


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