roast sausage gnocchi with tomato and greens

AKA ‘easy dins for little ones when the mums need to get on the wine and chat fast.’ I first made this roast sausage gnocchi when my frazzled friend was over with her children one Friday after school. It remains one of the easiest recipes and most quickly gobbled dinners I’ve made this year.

I was exhausted from a week of cooking, so instead of making gnocchi in a tomato sauce as I’d planned, I threw everything in the oven together so that it could cook while the children played and we cracked open the wine. Most of my recipes come from similar (although not always wine-fuelled) changes of plans.

I’ve never had a reaction to a recipe like the one I had to this. People were stopping me at the school gates and leaving messages on social media, tagging all their friends, saying how much they and their children loved it. Years later, I get a few people a week telling me this roast sausage gnocchi is one of their weekly dinners. It struck a cord for how many of us feel at the end of the week.