Salmon with Gnocci & Mushrooms

To celebrate my new job as culinary director at Mercy Creek,  we dined with Kate and Zach in Grand Rapids at the downtown restaurant, Six One Six.  Everyone had wonderful dishes, but I really liked the flavor of John's dish - Salmon with Potato Gnocci & Mushrooms drizzled with Ramp Pesto.  This is my recreation.

I've never made gnocci before and everything I read told me that it takes practice - they're right.  There's nothing difficult about making the gnocchi but forming it to look nice does take time.  After cooking it for just 3 minutes, I tossed it with sauted mushrooms to brown.

I didn't have ramps for the pesto, so I substituted spinach, basil and chives which was a really good combination.  A quickly sauted filet of salmon rounded out the dish.

My gnocchi were not the cute little guys that you see in photos or restaurants - that will take me some time.  But they were so good and I'm already thinking of other versions like herb or spinach.  Yum Yum.