How to make a gnocchi transformation Friday, February 1st, 2008
Although it’s somtimes a chore, I love making gnocchi and love even more to devour them with a light bolognese sauce, cheese and olive oil. So I thought, as well as sharing the simple yet delicious recipe my great-grandmother passed down to me, I would attempt to devise a format for dishing out recipe data in XML. Logical, no?
I use XSL to doll up the XML data mostly to keep it relatively platform indepedent, that is, no PHP or JavaScript, but of course a XSL parser wouldn’t hurt of course. For a recipes application however, using simpleXML and some Ajax magic would go down as well as these floury balls of joy do with a crisp verdelho.
There are some fantastic recipe sites and books available but alas I didn’t spend much time researching the market. I’d rather be eating. Rather it was a quick and dirty way of providing the means to share my love of food and be a complete nerd at the same time.
So if you like traditional Italian food and don’t mind getting your hands dirty in flour and XML, dig in and mangiati quanto vuoi! 