Gnocchi with Butter Thyme Sauce

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'I really think there's something incorrect about this recipe. I followed it exactly and ended up with glop. After adding A LOT of flour, the gnocchi turned out fine. I have made gnocchi before, so I knew what it needed. I would definitely not recommend using this recipe the first time you make gnocchi.'

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What a disappointment and waste of butter! Mine ended up in the trash! I even made it twice thinking I had done something wrong the first time. So moved on to another recipe and finally got gnocchi we could eat.

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This is a great recipe for gnocchi and the butter thyme sauce lends itself well to adding oven roasted mushrooms to the mix. After three tries and tinkering here is what we found: You MUST use a good fresh russet potato. You cannot rely on mashing the potato with a fork and should use a ricer. When ricing the potato, spread it over a sheet to cool to room temperature--this only takes 10-15 minutes. Use only egg yolks (2 yolks gets you close to 3 tablespoons. Double the salt. Add a dash of nutmeg. Sift the flour in small amounts and knead until just incorporated. You should have a soft dough and, depending on humidity, you may need to add more flour. Taste the raw dough and make sure it is seasoned well. Let the dough rest for four or five minutes then form individual gnocchi. Bring salted water in a LARGE pot to a GENTLE boil and add the gnocchi in four or five additions. During the initial few seconds in the water each individual gnocchi forms a skin and will not stick to others. Boil GENTLY for three to four minutes. Drain very briefly on paper towels and add to hot browned butter in batches. Serve immediately or you risk your potato pillows turning dense.

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I can't imagine what could have gone so wrong that people ended up with potato soup! But since there was more than one person saying this, well, I guess it must be a fairly common mistake. Perhaps it has something to do with the potato...my potato came out very much overdone and I thought it would ruin everything but it did no such thing. Anyway, MY gnocchi turned out DELICIOUS, firm, well formed, I'm not a chef and really NEVER cook but I think this recipe could be classified as "easy" and not "intermediate". If you're looking at this for the first time, go ahead and try it...maybe you'll end up with potato soup, but more likely you'll have a delicious dish of pasta that you can say you made from scratch! Now how satisfying is that??

My only complaint is that I wish I had made more...4-6 servings? If your guests are INFANTS! I could have eaten the whole thing all by myself! (Growing college student, here. Oh, and also, I agree with whoever said "too much butter". Giada, Paula Dean's already got that gimmick; you gotta find something else.

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so... this was the 'easiest' recipe for gnocchi that i could find, but turns out that I shouldnt have tried this for Christamas dinner. The potatoes turned out gooey and glue like, but i added cream, flour, and it somehow resembled a dough mixture. The end result was.... decent.... Giada must have a secret touch for this recipe

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I honestly expected this to be mouth watering. Disappointingly, it wasn't; but it wasn't all that bad either.

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I'll be honest, I cheated and used good quality 'fresh' store-bought gnocchi due to time constraints. I loved the flavor of the thyme butter but I felt that there was way too much butter and cut it by 1/3. I've done a similar recipe with sage leaves and that's amazing - the sage leaves crisp up and are quite lovely to eat. For this recipe, I also cooked up some proscuitto and crumbled it on top with the cheese - yum.

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after becoming a housewife i enjoy challenging myself in the kitchen so i guess ill have to find a harder recipe to do that. this was sooo easy to do. i even made them on my hurt leg that the doctor told me to stay off of. i used dill instead of thyme because thats what i had and that was very good. for the people who had a hard time with it just try it again it's worth it

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this was so bad i was in tears. i followed the recipe exactly and did everything she had done for the show. it went in the trash and i made some store bought pasta which was quite delicious and which won its points with me by not turning to a wet blob.

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The gnocchi fell apart while boiling. I felt like I was eating mash potatoes.