To be perfectly honest, I'm not the biggest fan of vegetables. I know they are good for you and have important vitamins in them and whatnot, but overall I wouldn't eat too many of them if I didn't have to. So I basically have to sneak them into my food like I'm a 5 year old. Pasta (or in this case, gnocchi) is a great item to put veggies in, because whatever sauce is on the pasta usually makes the veggies taste a lot better.
Ironically, in this case, the vegetables in this dish are the highlight of it. The peas and asparagus covered in mascarpone cream sauce are by far the most delicious part of this meal. They make a bright addition to the otherwise very creamy texture of the gnocchi and sauce.
The best part about this recipe is how very simple it is. I use packaged gnocchi, which takes something like 3 minutes to cook in boiling water and then it's ready. The sauce is only 3 ingredients, and hardest part of that is having to grate the Parmesan (if you buy the pre-grated stuff it doesn't really melt properly). Then you just cook up the veggies in a pan, put it all together and its done.
So, this becomes a really quick, easy dinner that would be great for a weeknight meal. It is especially good because picky kids will eat this right up, I should know since I have the taste buds of one myself!
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