Gnocchi & Gnudi Hands-On: A Taste of Italy with Lee Davenport

Join Lee Davenport for a hands-on cooking class where you’ll learn the art of making handmade gnocchi and gnudi from scratch. In this immersive experience, you’ll master the techniques to create these beloved Italian dishes, exploring the perfect balance of flavors and textures. As you shape your gnocchi, you’ll feel your way through working with tender potato dough, achieving a light and airy texture that melts in your mouth. You’ll also prepare delicate gnudi, fluffy pillows of ricotta goodness, which are essentially the filling of ravioli without the added labor of making pasta dough. To complement these dishes, we’ll compose two classic sauces: simple yet iconic tomato sauce and a savory brown butter herb sauce. To round out the meal, we will indulge in a velvety, not too sweet butterscotch budino that will satisfy your sweet tooth. Menu to Include: Potato Gnocchi Ricotto Gnudi Classic Tomato Sauce Brown Butter Herb Sauce Butterscotch Budino This Hands-On class (and lunch) is limited to ten people. CLICK HERE TO SAVE A SPOT About Lee: Lee Davenport left NY at the age of 23 and immediately connected her love of food with farming in the Midwest. Signing up to be a worker share member at a CSA farm in Madison sparked many culinary adventures: working farmers’ markets and farm-to-table restaurants, delivering produce for a collective of organic farms to Chicago area restaurants, owning a food cart and a jam business, and serving as farm chef on two different CSA farms. After relocating to Portland, Oregon to live in an Ecovillage and try her hand at growing food in community, a cross-country road trip completed the circle with a move back to upstate NY. Here she is connecting with farmers and chefs again in her work at Zinnia’s Dinette and HGS Home Chef. An excellent baker, Lee is grateful for the opportunity to share her lifetime experience of creating a wide variety of delicious dishes. Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets. Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware purchases on class day. HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce exceptional experiential learning through classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY – at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires. HGS Home Chef – 2635 NY-23, Hillsdale NY – 518-325-7000. Plentiful parking behind the shop.