Recipe for Sausage Gnocchi

As Promised here is the recipe for my Sausage Gnocchi:

INGREDIENTS

• 1 lb. Johnsonville Ground Italian Sausage
• 2 lb. Russert potatoes
• 2 egg yolks
• all purpose flour; as needed
• 2 cans crushed tomatoes
• 2 cans spinach
• 4 cloves garlic
• 2 Tbs. olive oil
• salt and pepper; to taste

DIRECTIONS

• Peel, cut and wash potatoes. Boil until fork tender.
• Dry potatoes on baking sheet. Put in 300° F oven for about 5-7 min.
• Brown ground sausage.
• Put potatoes through food mill. Mix with yolks. Mix with ground sausage.
• Take potato mix and gradually add flour until dough is formed.
• Put dough into pastry bag, pipe out dough lines and cut to desired size.
• Add gnocchi to salted boiling water, they are cooked when they float.
• Add olive oil and minced garlic to sauce pan and sweat.
• Add crushed tomatoes and spinach. Add cut peices of linked sausage. Simmer until sausage is cooked.
• Plate gnocchi, sauce and sausage. Enjoy!!

Basic video rundown for Sausage Gnocchi

Johnsonville Sausage contest entry

Sausage Gnocchi

This is how I rang in the New Year. I created this dish for the Johnsonville Pastaville Contest. I incorporated ground sausage into the gnocchi mix and made a garlic, olive oil, crushed tomato, and spinach sauce. Tomorrow when I send in the entry I will post the recipe. Wish me luck. Even if I don't win, at least it tasted good. I had fun making it with my little nephew and cousin helping me.

Listen to Music for the Kitchen

Welcome to my Blog

I hope that this is one of many posts. I have decided to blog about the journey that is my new career in the culinary field. From the posts I hope to share some incite with my struggles as well as my accomplishments along the way. You might even be lucky enough to see some accomplished dishes and recipes. I have always tried to create new dishes. They seem to get a little better every time I try them. Practice may not make "perfect" but at least they are edible. Tomorrow for New Year's Eve I am making trial run for a dish that I am entering in a recipe contest January 3rd. If all goes well I should have a recipe, photos, and a video in my next post.