Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Day 20: Before & After

Sometimes I think magic must exist when a person can take humble beginnings like these:


... and make it into a delicious sun-dried tomato parmesan gnocchi casserole. Served with a garlic chili tomato sauce on the side, and a big helping of salad.


New recipe win. It's from my Heidi Swanson cookbook, Super Natural Cooking, but I found someone who blogged it here in case you're interested. It's sort of half polenta, half gnocchi/dumpling. Plain by itself like gnocchi normally is, its flavor blooms when combining its outside parmesan crust and pillowy inside texture with the acidity of the tomato sauce. I halved the sun-dried tomato quantity and cut back on the chili in the sauce, and it came out great. Next time, a few fried sage leaves on top will make it perfect.

3 comments:

cathy said...

Mmmmm! Sounds like a lot of work but worth it. I lurve gnocchi. And fried sage leaves? Uh, yes please.

jae said...

Not a lot of work at all! Mix things in pan, cut our circles, put in oven. You are a great cook. you can totally do it, no sweat.

Kate said...

that looks so yummy!