I had quite the weekend of meal prep! I am working to fill up my freezer as thoroughly as possible before things get crazy. I'm doing as many time-intensive favorites as will fit in there so that when things get crazy in production, I'll have a ton of delicious food to treat myself with.

One of my all-time favorites is potato gnocchi. It pairs beautifully with any number of sauce combinations, and cooks from frozen like a dream. It also takes a bit of time to prepare.

Planning!

My go-to recipe for gnocchi is from a 2015 Food & Wine recipe that no longer can be found online. Rest assured, it is a basic gnocchi recipe with no twists: bake potatoes; hand mix with beaten egg, salt, and some flour; roll out; cut; roll down a fork; freeze in a single layer; store.

Here's the nutritional breakdown from Fitbit...

My intention is for this to combine with sauces for two separate meals of four portions each, so eight portions altogether.

Groceries I had on hand...

• eggs
• flour
• kosher salt

Groceries I had to buy...

• potatoes (1.97lb @ $1.29/lb = $2.54)

Total monies spent for the entire recipe: $2.54

Total monies spent for each of these 8 portions....

$.32 per portion.

Cooking!

Before I get to the photos, a couple of notes for you...

Firstly, this is a sticky dough. It will stick to your fingers, to your board, to your bench scraper, to your fork. I try to find a happy medium between super sticky and too much flour, because too much flour = dense gnocchi, which, you know, no thank you.

Secondly, many recipes will call for the use of a ricer. I don't have one. I do have a food mill, which I'm in love with. The most important thing is: don't use a food processor. Use a ricer! Use a food mill! Use a cheese grater (seriously)! But do not use a food processor for potatoes unless you like gummy potatoes.

Okay, here are the prep photos!

Once these have chilled in the freezer in a single layer on the sheet tray for about an hour / hour and a half (touch them to see if they're frozen), they can go into a container or bag without fear of them sticking together. When I'm ready to cook them, they'll go straight from the freezer into salted boiling water.

It's a gift to Future Me!