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Family Recipe Roullette
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[A] Each January, I join most of my cousins 1 that gather in New Jersey for our annual extended family reunion. During the week, we indulge in a longstanding family 2 tradition: making delicious homemade gnocchi. 2 Instead of spending hours watching television or playing board games, my Italian cousins and I busy ourselves in my aunt’s bright yellow kitchen cooking up large platefuls of our special Italian gnocchi.3[B]
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Our recipe uses baked potatoes, egg, water, flour, and salt. Baked potatoes work better than boiled: 4 their softer and don’t make the dough wet. We usually prepare them the night before so they have time to cool completely. We’ve always followed our grandmother’s recipe exactly— 5 and for good reason, as we later discovered. [C]
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This past year, my cousin Cynthia decided to try a pesto version. Her husband Raoul 6 mentions. that our usual dough tasted bland, so we added basil and garlic early in the process. It didn’t go as planned. Raoul forgot that pesto contains 7 garlic, which doesn’t sit well with him. He spent the rest of the evening recovering from a stomach ache. 8 Meanwhile,my cousins and I decided that keeping the whole family stomach-ache free is more important than 9 experimenting with new types of gnocchi. [D]