When I decided to put “Pillow Talk” on the blog, I started brainstorming pillowy foods and came up with one of my favorites: gnocchi.

This vegan recipe makes 4 “servings.” It can easily be made gluten-free if you find gluten-free gnocchi and gluten-free vegan sausage.

Ingredients
1 16-ounce package of gnocchi
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 10-ounce bag of frozen peas
1 2.8-ounce tube or jar of vegan pesto
4 links vegan, gluten-free sausage (optional)
4 teaspoons vegan grated parmesan (for topping, optional)

Instructions
Bring a pot of water to a boil, then cook the gnocchi according to the packaging instructions.

While the water is boiling and the gnocchi is cooking, add the oil, peas and optional sausage to a pan over medium heat.

Once the gnocchi is done cooking and strained, add it and the pesto into the pan with the other ingredients.

Mix everything together and make sure the gnocchi gets coated in some of the pesto.

Serve (and top with parm if you like), then enjoy with “Pillow Talk!”

The Easy Route
You might be able to find pre-cooked gnocchi or a ready-made meal similar to this at your grocery store.

If you have a brand in mind or know a restaurant that makes a similar dish, please share those details in the comments.

The Pairing
A child of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s, 1959’s “Pillow Talk” is an iconic entry in the romcom canon.

Doris Day is Jan, an interior designer who shares a phone line with Brad, a songwriter played by Rock Hudson.

As a career-focused woman who works from home often, Jan is extremely frustrated by Brad hogging the phone line with an endless stream of phone calls to his conquests.

They cross paths face-to-face and while he knows who she is, she does not know who he is. He decides to take advantage of this in a scheme to make her his next conquest.

This is the first of three films Day and Hudson did together. Their chemistry is legendary, similar to that of Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

Tony Randall takes a memorable supporting turn as Jonathan, a client of Jan’s and a friend of Brad’s. He also appears in the other two films Day and Hudson did together.

On top of Day, Hudson and Randall, Thelma Ritter is absolutely glorious (as usual) as Alma, Jan’s housekeeper.

Ultimately, some aspects of this movie may feel dated, but it does a great job of bridging the gap between my beloved screwball comedies and the swinging ’60s.

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