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> "Pandora" > wrote in message
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>> Yesterday I made a trip with my boyfriend in the nothern of Piemonte. I
> went
>> to Formazza (Verbania), a little country near Switzerland about at 1300
>> at
>> sea level.
>> Here we have ate *chestnut dumplings* (gnocchi di castagne), seasoned
>> with
>> butter and sage.
>> And then some local cheese and salami.
>> I hadn't made the photo of chestnut dumplings, but I would like to make
>> them because they were very very good.
>> I ask myself if in Us you have the chestnut flour indispensable for this
>> dish.
>> Here his some photo of the country I visited and I hope you enjoy them
> like
>> I do:
>> http://tinypic.com/9hs6mv.jpg
>> http://tinypic.com/9hs6xs.jpg
>> http://tinypic.com/9hs70x.jpg
>> http://tinypic.com/9hs77n.jpg
>> http://tinypic.com/9hs8p1.jpg
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>> When I will make dumplings, I will send you other photos.
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> Great photos, Pandora. I've seen chestnut flour at the local natural
> foods
> co-op and also a health food store. I would LOVE to see both your recipe
> and a picture of those delicious sounding gnochhi!

We have a supermarket called Coop, too ))
"Gnocchi di castagne" aren't made only with chestnut flour, but also with
potatoes. Pratically you mix the purea of boiled potatoes with flour just
like they was potatoes dumplings. I'll be more precise when I will do them.
Tahnk you and
Cheers
Pandora
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> Tammy
> Sacramento, California (where it's "only" going to get up to 102F (38C)
> today....)
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