96yr old Isolina makes gnocchi with basil pesto! | Pasta Grannies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2023
- Gnocchi with basil pesto is a crowd pleaser! We first visited Isolina a couple of years ago and she enjoyed herself so much, she wanted to be filmed again; here's her recipe.
2 kilos of floury potatoes (you can boil them whole, bake or microwave them), cooked and riced, 400g flour (plain, all purpose, 0) and around 70ml of tepid water, a pinch of salt. Isolina doesn't use an egg.
For the basil pesto - 100g large bunch of young fresh basil 'Genovese' leaves, one garlic clove, 50g Italian pine nuts, 80g grated Parmigiano (the more aged the better), 50ml or so of extra virgin olive oil - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
And this is why living in Europe , keeping traditional cooking is just great !
96 years old, unbelievable. She looks a lot younger, in good shape, still living in her home, Bravo, Isolina.
True, but she’s a woman so it’s ‘brava’.
@@elaineblackhurst1509 in english, bravo is an interjection, who means , well done, so, it is still bravo, Isolina.
@@Loulou-sr3tk the tradition for many English speakers is also to use brava, but it's not a grave offense if that's not how you grew up saying it.
@@Loulou-sr3tkI just googled the meaning of interjection, stick to brava
Quite awesome!
#SaveSoil
putting olive oil and water in the gnocci dough instead of an egg is one of those „pasta-granny-tips“ I love this channel for😀👍
Isolina lives in her home; walking up several flights of stairs. No wonder she's in such good health; home cooking and staying active. These gnocchi with basil pesto look amazing. Thank you, Vicky!
activity is the guardian angel of health
I'm glad you enjoyed meeting Isolina. And yes, her gnocchi were amazing.🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
These women never cease to amaze me. Having lived such full but hard lives. And probably never complained because it was just the way it was. So much respect.
spot on.
Some cooking blog said recently that adding olive oil to your pasta water is a "waste of an ingredient." Well, cooking blog, if it's good enough for Italian nonnas, it's good enough for me!
Fresh gnocchi are more "risky", especially those ones made without eggs. store-bought dry pasta needs no olive oil in the boiling water, true.
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But the gnocchi/pasta never come in direct contact with the oil . . .
For dried pasta, it's generally not necessary (though of course you can do it if you have access to olive oil easily as it's certainly the case in Italy). For freshly made pasta or gnocchi it can help to separate them a little more easily while cooking, although the most important thing is not to overload your cooking pot. So that blog is partly right, but it's not a big deal and people do it their preferred way in Italy as well. Just don't add expensive extra virgin oil to your water, that definitely would be a waste.
I hope somebody would gift her a bigger mortar.
She was so young when her dad died, and with that, she was forced to work at an early age. But look at her.. 96, and still kickin’! ❤
For a 96 yr old she looks incredible healthy!❤
Isolina is the first nonna who seems sad. As she described it she had a hard life. ‘Dio ti benedica, Isolina!’
This granny spreading her unconditional love...she is really cute 🥺🥺✨✨✨🌈
What do we need to do to get her a replacement larger mortar and pestle? I can't describe how frustrating it was to have her sharing so much knowledge to us and know someone has stolen from her
I know 😑
God bless Isolina!
Salivating. I grew up with a drunk mom and frozen tv trays. Thankfully my children do not. I want an Italian grandma.
incredible!96 yars old!God bless her! 💗
Thank you, Vicky for letting us dream of Italy and our wonderful Pasta Grannies! Another terrific video.🙏❤
hi Maria, I'm glad you enjoy the videos 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
I couldn’t have resisted a taste of that divine-looking pesto either, Vicky!! She made the gnocchi look easy to make! God bless her! Oh! That copper ladle/strainer! As always, I can’t wait for the next episode!
I'm glad you enjoy the channel and this episode Laura! 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Another episode to brighten my day. I really cannot believe that Isolina is 96 years old. You can never have enough basil! Thanks for another great episode.
The basil is a good reason to move to Liguria! best wishes, Vicky
This show is one of the few things in life that bring me straight joy. Maybe that's bad, but I really enjoy these people. I would love to see more about their local regions and towns.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ريحة pesto وصلت حتى أكادير بالمغرب .
Hi Vicky, thanks for this video. It reminds me when I was a kid, and my grandmother used to make us (my brother and I) gnocchi during summertime. With basil pesto (prepared at the moment as your guest did) or with original fontina valdostana. I remember basil smell and flavor, perfectly. A dish that always put a smile on our face and we never got tired of. She learned to prepare pesto because they left Piedmont countryside and lived in Genova for a short period of time, then they come back because my grandfather couldn’t live without doing agriculture. Now one of my uncle grows basil into some barriques split into two halves (as vases) so he can keep them repaired by rain (watering just the soil, not leaves), in order to avoid parasites and diseases without spreading any treatment. My other uncle keep that basil, makes a lot of pesto and immediately freeze it in glass micro jars (single portions), so we have kind of fresh pesto during all autumn , winter and spring. It a great time saver, a healthy pasta dressing, and a joy for my taste buds.
That’s a perfect crossover between simplicity and taste/smell perfection. I could eat it almost every day.
Have a nice summer.
Hello Andrea, what great food memories and traditions your family has. I like how making pesto is a group effort! I haven't heard of using fontina valdostano in pesto, but I bet it's delicious. Is that a family tradition or is it more generally in the Aosta valley? I'll have to film it! 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
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Sorry, I didn’t wrote it correctly, probably. I meant that she used to put parmigiano and/or pecorino grated cheese into her basil pesto, and sometimes she used to dress gnocchi just with (melted) fontina, when we had it available in the kitchen. Both were super simple and delicious.
Anyway, it’s a disaster here: I keep eating and eating and I can’t loose a pound. How can you explain that?😅
I missed the 'or' Andrea, my apologies. Anyway, both are delicious as you say! I was looking for another excuse to return to Val d'Aosta. I read somewhere that a fat tummy is a 'Buddha Belly of Happiness' and given the joy of Italian food, I think it's a good description! best wishes, Vicky
Love Isolina’s humor! Touching and beautiful story, can’t imagine all the ones left untold ❤
Yes, Isolina has had an interesting life 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Excellence
@@pastagranniesyour blue jacket though...such a cutie!
Right? Oh to spend the day with a person like that and hear it all
We all wish she was our grandma. ❤
It’s such a pleasure watching this lady. You know is the real thing!
E l Italia che tutti noi amiamo...adoriamo...
Salute a la nonna e a Vicky.
grazie 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Oh my goodness I am so hungry for gnocchi genovese, this must be a fantastic treat from Isolina. Thanks for making sure we all get to see it.
Какая молодец, восхищаюсь Вами❤️. Пусть Всевышний оберегает вас.
Danke, danke liebenswerte Oma😋👍‼️So eine liebe Oma möchte ich auch haben👍‼️Bitte gebt ihr ein Küsschen von mir👍‼️Das sie noch lange lebe👍‼️Und ihr Wissen noch vielen weiter gibt👍‼️Ich habe noch nie Gnochi gegessen, erst recht nicht mit 😅. Ich war auch noch nie in Italien. Aber ich habe mich in diese Liebe Oma verliebt und werde zur Erinnerung an sie, dieses Essen machen😋👍‼️ 🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
I cant believe she is making pesto by pounding it rather than using a mixer. Inspiring! God bless
Just made this Isolina' pesto recipe! And i can say the fresh 1st taste of the pounded mixture vs the 2nd rounds when i put it inside the mixer is not the at all the same thing anymore :') Isolina knows best 💕
I swear watching this video i can smell the basil. I am really loving this channel, when I was a child the only way I could chat with my mother was if I stood beside her in the kitchen while she was cooking, we were quite poor and she did everything from scratch, Spanish food. This channel reminds me of that. I love Italian food, the authentic food just like you see on this channel prepared by these ladies. They clearly love their families and work very hard to make good food for them. Thank you so much for making these videos.
Thank you for sharing your memory. I hope there is a Spanish equivalent of Pasta Grannies recording traditional abuelas recipes! best wishes, Vicky
I needed to see a real Italian woman make real gnocchis. Just so I know that what I've learned is correct. Thank you it looks wonderful.
Ach was ist die Dame süß. Und sogar das Pesto mit dem Mörser gemacht und das mit 96 Jahre. Toll.
Der beste Kommentar war:"sie sind gut genug zum essen. 😂
Heute Abend gibt es Gnocci mit Pesto bei uns. Danke für das Video ❤
"Si lasciano mangiare" (good enough to eat) is suuuuch an Italian grandma expression, especially when they cook the most freaking amazing meal! My mum who's turning 70 next year is starting to use it too, I guess it comes with age 🤣
So true!!
Nothing could be more rustic with this recipe. Beautiful ❤
Madame Isolina bears a striking resemblance to my paternal grandmother, although of Scottish origin, and I thought I’d seen a ghost. This video was more comforting than usual for me, thanks so much!
That's true - Isolina's lovely complexion is quite Celtic. 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Every time I watch a Pasta Grannies video it feels like I won the lottery!💕
that's good to hear, thank you 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Every step is important. Use floury potatoes. (In America I use big russet potatoes.) Cook whole. ALWAYS use a ricer after peeling. No egg. Isolina is the real deal! :) I'm not sure of her proportions of flour to potatoes. As she says herself, they're going to be hard, instead of soft and pillowy if there's too much flour. My mother would rice the potatoes and then add flour until dough is not sticky, being careful not to knead it too much, which, like adding an egg makes them tough instead of soft and pillowy.
you had some great memories of your mother 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
I thought there should be something wrong with my way of cooking it. I cooked potatoes already peeled 😂 so it all was rather like a lump than nice gnocchi from the video)
This is one of my all-time favorite dishes.
That is the most beautiful pesto I have ever seen ❤ Grazie.
Quando ela disse "O gnocchi esta pronto" involuntariamente eu bati palmas aqui também!!! Realmente sua simpatia é contagiante!
Beautiful video, thanks for sharing
The true secret of long life is making pasta!
Vicky Isoline's amazing gnocchi looked so very tasty indeed, gnocchi looks very easy to make but are in fact extremely difficult to get that just perfect soft and pillowy texture, don't ask me how I know😬 the balance of potato to flour is very important and Isoline's skilled eye knows exactly, the same with the kneading, just enough I am sure she would say. Bless you all for another enjoyable time in the real professional kitchen😉. Ramon x.
hi Ramon, you are so right! It takes practise and paying attention to the process to get the flour/potato ratio 'just so'. 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
@@pastagrannies 👍.
Loved seeing this. I'm partial to using blenders, but it's nice to see everything done manually.
I just found this whole program last night and it is just wonderful.
This woman and the other women and their stories and the things they've done and the artifacts that they have from their family. You know heirloom treasures and the recipes and their abilities in their '90s!!
I just can't say enough good things.
I can say I wish I had been there to taste that❤
One more fabulous episode and waiting for the next exciting episode good and unique work keep it up❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Per favore, date tipo un nobel a ogni signora protagonista di ogni singolo video?????
Caring for a knife that long is beautiful, and such a contrast with the disposable and next best thing mentality of today.
I think is my favorite one ever. The brightness in this women's eyes is mesmerizing.
This looks amazing! I cannot wait to try it. 😋
All the cooking shows are about slicing onions, but this one is about life and people. And yes, it has the best recipes!
Such a lovely lady, thank you for sharing the whole experience.
Another gorgeous recipe. Looks delish.
I helped make lots of gnocchi when I lived in Argentina. So delicious!
Drooling over the field-fresh basil and amazing gnocchi made to look utterly effortless with 80-odd years of experience...I feel the production team really has to start rolling with the unwritten laws of hospitality and eating some of these dishes first, though, the grannies always look so concerned/confused when made to do the for-camera taste.
It's Isolina's way and sense of humour! I promise I never make our ladies to do anything they don't want to do. I'd rather thought it was boring for viewers to always have me to do the eating at the end, but happy to. It's in everyone's job descriptions: eat everything if offered. So we all sat down to a lovely plate of gnocchi. 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
The gnocchi looked so delicious with that beautiful pesto. Brava Isolina and good heatlth for many years to come!
Grazie Isolina - Loro sembrano molto gusto. I love the honest hard-working humility of these nonne, and am so jealous that Vicky gets to spend to much time chatting with these interesting and talented grannies ❤
hi Paul, I always say I have the best job in the world! 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Fantastic as always. I’m inspired to make gnocchi
She is so great!!
Si lasciano mangiare! That exactly what my dad used to say when he really liked something. That really brought a smile to my face and shows her humbleness.
Magnificent. brings back memories of my Nonna.
Isolina is a legend,
Lovely ❤❤❤
Thank you Isolina💞💞
That gnocchi looks so good, I can’t wait to tried making one.
What a great woman ❤
Respect for a woman that doesnt fear a huge blade. Mom doesnt like to cook when she comes over. All the knives in my kitchen are big...
Não consigo assistir 😢 me emociono de ver as mãozinhas dela descascando a batata. Que coisa mais linda! Lembrei da minha avó, que saudade dela ❤
Yummmm! 💜 Thank you so much
If I could like this video a thousand times I would😄She's such an inspiration
Isolina.looks loke she was a beauty in her youth. She has nice eyes.
Yes I love harder gnocchis and I cook them often my mums way . Isolina did fantastic work 🌈
I think this is the first time a Nonna wasn't completely happy with their creation.
It's good enough to eat, but I've definitely made it better.
Blame it on the pestle & mortar being too small!
I think Isolina was worried we wouldn't like it, so said things to excuse it. Of course the gnocchi were delicious. 🙂🌺 best wishes, Vicky
Hermosa, ella dice,,, todo me gusta cocinar, bendiciones por siempre le de Dios
Fantastica, signora Isolina! Questi gnocchi hanno un aspetto davvero incredibile. 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Isolina is amazing! Wish i could eat those!!
God bless nonna Isolina I'm gonna try making some fresh gnocchi it looks amazing 😋
Fabulous!
Voi siete bravissima, Signora❤❤❤
Gli gnocchi sono ottimi!!
I just found this channel! Thank you so much for sharing this valuable knowledge
Hats off to. Great recipe
Amazing woman. She does not look her age. It gives such hope for healthy longevity. And those gnocchi…. Mama mia! They look delicious.
My niece loves pesto. And now I know how to teach her a proper one :)
Super Signora Isolina, ca fé i curzetti a zenoes! ❤️🌹
Maybe it's heresy but I make gnocchi with dehydrated potatoes, which are dirt cheap and really convenient. Fun to see Isolina doesn't bother with a gnocchi board - just a plain old fork. I brown the gnocchi with sage in butter.
Дай Бог так выглядеть и так бодро готовить в 96!!))) Эта потрясающая женщина видимо достойно прожила жизнь!
Isolina is absolutely beautiful! Those eyes.
Omg that is so much work!
That little glass of wine must go a loooong way for her🤣🤣🤣
one kitchen to rule them all: the Italian kitchen.
Veramente delicioso! ❤
Tried it. Tastes so good my eyes rolled back and my husband asked if i wanted to be alone with the pasta lolol
👍 Great 💞 😊
Good food & good sleep, those are some of the ingredients from the recipe of long life!
wow yummilicius ❤
Her story reminds us, that all the affluence and consumerism in Europe today is indeed a very, very recent achievement.
Bravissima❤
I've seen Italian cooks break pasta in half before cooking, and add olive oil to cooking water. But Italian food know-it-alls in the USA insist that you can do neither.
this is how i want to be when i grow older!
troppo carissimo ❤
A pox on whomever stole her large mortar!
You could see how much it hurts her. An object like that is a member of her family; a connection to her history and to the people she has know who've died. Not only that, it changes how she cooks. What a crime all around.