Gnocchi

This day was about making gnocchi for my group. I had never had gnocchi before today. Always wanted to, but never saw a restaurant here in Lincoln that served it. And it's definitely hard to find in stores. I think I've only seen it once where there is a vacuum sealed package of it. Anyways, it was actually pretty easy to do. We baked some potatoes, ran the insides of it through a ricer, added some flour and a couple other things, then rolled it out and cooked. It was really good. I made an asparagus pesto to go with it. Never made a pesto before that didn't contain basil, but this one was excellent. Toasted some pine nuts, blanched the asparagus, added oil, garlic, and parmesan and let the robot coupe do it's thing. Put it all together and added a parmesan crisp. Yes, this was a very good day for our group.