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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Gnocchi with White Wine and Cress (or whatever's in the fridge)

Saturday night came around, and Mateus and I went back and forth about what to do for dinner, that before we knew it, it was 9pm and we were delirious with hunger and making no sense.  The entire day we pondered where to go out to dinner, until finally I just got up and friggin cooked something.

So, we checked out the fridge and freezer to see what was still left after a week of no food-shopping and we had:

Frozen Gnocchi
a little watercress
a shallot
a tomato
sliced mushrooms
parsley
a lemon
and the rest of a bottle of white wine

Thus was born the following dinner, which I'm sure could be made with just about anything you find in the fridge...

I cooked the shallot in some olive oil and butter, added the mushrooms for some browning. Once the shrooms were brown, I added a squeeze of lemon, and a cup of the wine, and let that simmer down for a few minutes.  Then I added the tomato (diced up), the gnocchi (which I had been boiling a little bit in water, derrr), and some of the liquid from the gnocchi, since it was full of starch and helped to make the sauce nice and creamy.   Once everything was tossed together I added the parsley and cress so that it would stay fresh and green/ SERVED IT UP!

Don't worry, upon eating we returned to out "normal" selves.  : )

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