Roasted Red Pepper instead of ...

Roasted red pepper in place of the tomato, for your meat sauce over pasta. And instead of doing a traditional pasta we played with the gnocchi! Fun lil potato goodness. I did this one with the boyfriend, team cooking, a fun relationship building exercise. We do love our food.

Cody's Roasted Red Pepper Meat Sauce over Gnocchi

1 package of lean ground meat

2 12oz jar of roasted red peppers (well drained!)

3 cloves garlic

half a small white or yellow onion

1 package gnocchi

salt and pepper to taste

1tbs of crushed red pepper (depending on how much heat you like really, we wanted ours to have a kick!)

Cook gnocchi. Cook meat (add a clove of garlic minced, salt and pepper and oil for flavor). In a food processor pulse (only pulse!) the roasted red peppers, (that have been well drained of the juice from the jar) garlic and onion. You want to create a sort of salsa here, less of a sauce. Throw in a lil salt and pepper for flavoring. Add the red pepper sauce to the meat on the stove top. We did not drain the meat for the extra flavor and liquid it provided. Mix the salsa/sauce with the meat. And top it to your cooked gnocchi. Parmesan cheese for additional flavoring if you like. Very simple. And very delicious:) A nice replacement to the red tomato sauce. Also, its homemade and requires little work!