I was watching A Moveable Feast on PBS a few weeks ago and Jonathan Waxman was on. He made these potato gnocchi and said that he sometimes doesn't boil them. He just throws them frozen into browned butter and cooks them that way. He made them with fava beans, peas, and asparagus . I'm not too into the asparagus thing but I did like the idea of not boiling them. Sometimes they are such a pain to boil. I thought he might be onto a real good thing here for the summer. You know how it is, the kitchen is about 190 degrees, you're dying for some sort of pasta dish (yeah I know gnocchi is not really pasta but OK you're dying for a real starch dish), and the thought of boiling water just makes you want to keel over right there on the spot. What if you could just throw on some butter and cook them in that? So off I went experimenting. Potato Gnocchi 2lbs russet potato 1-2 eggs 1/2 c flour salt/pepper nutmeg Bake the potatoes. Do not boil them because ...