These gnocchi are served with a nettle pesto or a tomato and nettle sauce, and are especially tasty with plenty of butter and topped with toasted pine nuts and grated Parmesan.
Some people consider nettles to be a ‘weed’, but as naturalist and author Nick Baker argues, nettles and other ‘weeds’ are important for wildlife. “Where there’s a patch of weeds, there will be stories to tell,” he says. “A rich collection of cultural tomes, a gallery of visual feasts and a bestiary beyond your wildest imagination. It is in these tangled banks that real wild complexity still lurks.”
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