Having friends is especially helpful when you want to make something that is possibly time intensive and you might be bored if you do it alone. I wanted to try making homemade gnocchi and my friends Carrie, Erin, Jessica and Kelly were up for an evening of fun. It was delicious.

Jessica is the resident cooking genius and happens to have Martha Stewart’s Cooking School cookbook, which was the source for our recipe. We made both potato gnocchi and ricotta gnocchi and they were delicious.

First, we assembled the food mill, which started out looking like this:

Carrie is a parts assembly master so she finished up:

Then we milled the potatoes:

While the food millers milled, Erin got started on the pesto:

Once all the potatoes were milled up, we put them onto the (clean) counter and began the rest of the recipe:

We kneaded this until it was doughy then made snakes or ropes:

(Carrie is in the background working on the ricotta gnocchi)

Then we cut them inot pieces and shaped them with a fork:

Then, we boiled them:

The feast!

Everyone was very polite, even though we were rather hungry by the time we ate!

mmm.

Thanks girls! I’m really glad I have friends who can share a fun night of cooking and laughing!