Over the weekend I had made some chicken cutlets and mashed potatoes and had quite a bit of leftover mashed potatoes. I'm not a huge potato person so I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with all the leftovers, I browsed through some recipes contemplating making a potato bread of some sort when I had an idea...gnocchi.
Gnocchi is actually pretty easy to make and if you happen to have mashed potatoes lying around they can be made in a cinch. Trust me when I say it's a beautiful thing if you can skip over the boiling potatoes part. I have watched my grandmother make gnocchi thousands of times but had never attempted to do them solo. I decided to just go ahead and try it out, adding a little of this and a little of that until I had achieved what I thought was a good dough. I decided to fry them in a pan with a little butter after boiling them and serve them with some grilled eggplant. It was a surprisingly light dinner and was absolutely delicious.
