This cooking experience was inspired by a TikTok video. I came across a loaded gnocchi soup recipe. I watched the video, and I wanted to give it a shot. I have always wanted to try gnocchi, but I have never eaten or cooked it before, so this was my opportunity.
First I began to prep my ingredients. I cooked my bacon, diced my onion small, etc. and the came the step to add my gnocchi. After reading the package I had bought I realized that I bought the skillet gnocchi. Honestly I just hoped for the best because I did not want to take them back to the store and get another package.
The recipe called for a pound of gnocchi and I did not have the scale to weigh them out. So in this instance, I “measured with my heart.” I grew more and more anxious as I grew closer to the final result. Not in the aspect that I was not doing it correctly, just in the sense that I was not sure how this kind of food was going to taste, and it made me nervous, I did not want to waste a meal. Once it was time to add my “skillet” gnocchi, I allowed for that to simmer in the pot and I was able to clean up my ingredients and ensure I could get some dish water ready for clean up. The cleaning up aspect was not as bad as I anticipated. It took less than 5 minutes to do all the dishes.
Final Results!
I finished up my dishes and allowed for the soup to simmer. It was time to try it out. To my amazement, it was actually pretty good, even with using the skillet gnocchi.
I added my bacon garnish and cheese to the bowl and ate it all.
Cons to the recipe
A couple things I wish could be different is the amount of soup this made. Being a single mom and having a picky child. I think this recipe had made way too much for our family, so I will be sharing my soup with my other family members to ensure it does not go to waste.
TikTok video
One platform I have never used before, is TikTok. Even though I send a ridiculous amount of time looking at TikTok’s and having the inspiration from that platform be that for this soup. I have never personally made one before. So, I chose to do a TikTok and I wanted it to be short and sweet.
Using TikTok I was humbled to know that it is not as easy as it looks. I had first off recorded an entire minute of nothing, and then while trying to edit, I struggled with trying to find the edit function to cut out the 49 seconds of black screen *insert facepalm emoji* I know that I am 29 and this should not be a foreign thing to me, meaning, making something as easy as a TikTok video but embarrassingly enough it very much is. I think that if I had a bit more practice with it, I would be able to get it, and it not be as intimidating. But I do not find TikTok an accurate site either. TikTok makes it very easy to get the impression things are so easy and fast, and let me bear the bad news. IT IS NOT.
now ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy my first official TikTok.
wow your soup looks so good! I liked how you added how you got the wrong kind of gnocchi and decided just to roll with it. I think everyone buys the wrong ingredient and that made your blog relatable. (or at least to me)
Oooh yum! Even with mistakes (like buying wrong ingredients) sometimes it can be a good thing and make recipes better! With TikTok I find that it can be either incredibly easy or very difficult. There isn’t really a happy medium. I think what a lot of people do is try to make their videos super aesthetically appealing but sometimes just hitting record and having long clips is the way to go!
The gnocchi soup looks so yummy! Haha I totally agree that things are never as easy as they seem on TikTok, especially when it comes to cooking.