Renato Favaro, chef at Italian restaurant Como in Esch-sur-Alzette, knew instantly what he wanted to talk about. “It’s one of my mother’s recipes.” The ‘Ratte potato gnocchi in tomato, basil and parmesan sauce’ recipe he shares with us is the dish that always transports him right back to his childhood. “The tradition back then in that part of Italy, near Lake Como, was to eat gnocchi on Thursdays. I can still vividly see us all – my parents, my two sisters and I – sitting around the big table, with its big tablecloth. It was a real family affair: peeling the potatoes, cooking them, Dad mashing them, Mum making the dough… Mum was always getting annoyed with us for eating them before they were ready,” smiles the chef nostalgically. “I regularly put them on the menu, sometimes with a bit of a twist,” he says, before concluding with this heartfelt truth: “Cooking is love.”
Ratte potato gnocchi salsa pomodoro, basilico e parmigiano
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