Food Recipes Collection

GNOCCHIs (Potato(e) Cavatelli) ============================== Ingredients: ------------ 6 cups flour 3 boiled potato(e)s 2 tblsp olive oil or shortening 1 egg (optional) Instructions: ------------- Peel and mash the potatoes and pass through a sieve. Sift flour and form a well on dough board. Place potatoes and melted shortening or oil inside well, blend thoroughly, and knead until smooth. Now you are on your own when it comes to making the shape. I am not quite sure how it is done by hand because I have a hand crank machine that shapes them for me. Then you top them with your favorite spaghetti sauce. Hope this helps. I can't get enough of these and everyone that I have served this to loves them. From: mworkman@vm.cc.purdue.edu (Maggie Workman)

ITALIAN STUFFED MUSHROOMS ========================= Ingredients: 1 lb hot Italian sausage 1 slice finely chopped onion 1/2 green pepper, finely diced 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs dash of pepper 1/4 tsp salt ca. 1 1/4 cups spaghetti sauce 40 large mushroom caps oil mozzarella cheese Instructions: ------------- Cook Italian sausage, onion, green pepper, garlic powder, and a handful of mushroom stems, finely chopped, in a skillet, then drain fat. (It's best if you put meat mixture into a food processor with steel blade at this point to give meat a finer texture. Just process for about 5 seconds or less.) Then add bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and spaghetti sauce. Coat mushroom caps with oil. Fill mushroom caps with meat mixture. Cover with foil and bake at 350 about 20 minutes. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese, then broil until cheese is melted and mushrooms are tender. (Or loosely cover with wax paper and microwave...