When life gives you hagwons… get drunk alone and make gnocchi

Hi, I’m nico - a wannabe wine snob and salt addict.

Although my current kitchen is smaller than what I’m used to, I’m grateful that it’s bigger than many others i’ve seen in the past months I've spent in Korea.

I’ve got two gas burners and a washing machine right under so i can eat right from my stove while i do laundry, dreams really do come true. I have an extra area with a lot of counter space, and I wanted to be a diva and show off for my first post - so I made gnocchi, got drunk, and ate all of it - and i’m gonna teach you how.

Gnocchi: 1 cup flour, 1 cooked and mashed russet potato, 1 egg

Any vegetables you have on hand, I had pumpkin, shrooms, carrot, garlic, onion, broccoli, a small hot pepper

Salt/Pepp Chili Flake, olive oil, lemon

PS current music mode: leon bridges

That's my kitchen and a bag of trash

 

this is what I'm drinkin, TESCO selected guys - it's legit

Okay so to make gnocchi you need four ingredients: flour, egg, mashed potato, and beauty 

one: combine flour and mashed pot, make a well in the center - beat an egg in it

two: flour your plams, combine ingredients together (knead two or three times, don't over-knead) then make this shape

three: cut into fourths

four: roll each one out like this, with your hands and start from the center

finve: cut into mini pasta pillows

     

These bitches are goin to the tuuuuub

boil 3-4 minutes, until they float to the top and no longer than a few seconds (reserve some of this cooking liquid)

put some vegetables you've got on hand into a screaming hot pan with olive oil, embrace the char (i added chili flake and lots of salt), add the cooked gnocchi until also charred. Finish with some of the reserved pasta water until evaporated. Turn off head - finish with desired amount of olive oil/lemon