Recipe: Shiitake Mushroom & Seaweed Noodles

Seaweed & Shiitake Noodles

Seaweed is delicious as well as healthy. Give it a try with this simple, tasty noodle dish. [...]

Recipe: Turkey, Ham and Mushroom Pasta Bake

Turkey, ham & mushroom pasta bake

Turkey can be enjoyed all year round. Try this family and wallet friendly pasta bake. [...]

Recipe: Sara Danesin’s Spaghetti with Red Mullet Ragout

Spaghetti with Red Mullet Ragout - Photo from Garofalo

Delicious pasta with red mullet from Sara Danesin for Garofalo pasta. [...]

Recipe: Sara Danesin’s Pasta Alla Norma

Pasta Alla Norma

This is a classic Sicilian recipe blending the flavours of aubergines, tomatoes, basil and ricotta. The term Norma seems to refer to the lady who developed the dish whose standard was deemed as high as Bellini’s opera La Norma. Recipe developed by Sara Danesin for Garofalo pasta. Recipe: Pasta Norma Ingredients 2 medium aubergines, sliced [...] [...]

Recipe: Mustardy Sausage & Sticky Onion Pasta

Mustardy Sausage & Sticky Onion Pasta-1

Sticky onions, sausages and mustard make the perfect comforting food pasta. [...]

Christmas Leftovers – Recipe: Chestnut, Cranberry, Stilton & Sprout Pasta

Sprout Chestnut and cranberry pasta

Sprouts matched with some tart cranberries, soft sweet chestnuts and creamy Stilton it makes the perfect festive quartet from leftovers. [...]

Lunch with Philadephia & A Recipe For Philly Pesto Chicken Pasta

Philly chicken pesto pasta

A day with Philly and a child friendly Philly pesto chicken pasta recipe [...]

A Tale of Three Carbonaras

Nigella Carbonara

Carbonara three ways, which will you like best? [...]

Presto Pasta Night #200!

Would you believe that it is Presto Pasta Night 200?   That is nearly 4 years of a pasta round up every friday night!  I wonder how many dishes that is in total? I feel this post should be accompanied by a fanfare and fireworks!  Lots of entries this week, and I am posting a [...] [...]

Pea, Smoked Mackerel and Horseradish Penne

Pea smoked mackerel horseradish pasta

This pretty cream, pink and green dish was simple to put together and used up an open packet of smoked mackerel fillets, the remains of a bag frozen peas and the scrapings of a jar of horseradish sauce. [...]

Product Review and Recipe: Clearspring Silken Tofu Miso Dressing or Sauce

Similarly to marmite, when it comes to tofu people generally fall into 2 camps.   Those that love it and those that do not.    I am firmly in the first group and am constantly on a mission to convert the tofu haters.   I fully understand why people might think that they do not love tofu; badly [...] [...]

Presto Pasta Night: #189

It is a horrible damp, cold Friday here in London, and I have a bumper crop of pasta ideas for winter warming dishes for the coming week. [...]

Its Friday – It’s Presto Pasta Night!

I lasted hosted Presto Pasta Nights in July and I am delighted to be hosting PPN #189 next Friday 12th November.  If you have not had your friday supper yet, this friday’s round up, hosted by the event’s founder Ruth at Once Upon a Feast should give you lots of ideas. [...]

Speedy Tomato Spaghetti with Capers & Haddock

Usually I cook everything from scratch, but in the last few months I have been lucky enough to be invited to attend several tastings for quite astonishingly good ready made products (namely Bertolli Sauces and Tilda Stir Fry Rices) that I am more than happy to keep in the cupboard and use on the occasions [...] [...]

Bertolli Sauces: It’s hard to believe it’s from a jar!

A long while ago I received an invitation to go and discover the new range of sauces from Bertolli.   My immediate reaction was skeptical but I read further and realised that Gennaro Contaldo, Italian Chef and mentor to Jamie Oliver was involved.    Gennaro is a man that knows his food, and I was fairly sure [...] [...]

Four Seed Tapenade

A classic tapenade usually consists of black olives, capers and anchovies mixed in varying proportions.  I added some seeds to this pungent mix, to both lighten taste & colour and to add a dose of healthy omega 3 & 6s.    My seeds were a mixture of flax (linseed), pumpkin, sunflower and sesame.     The seeds diluted [...] [...]

Presto Pasta Night #171

It is Friday again and I have received a bumper number of entries for this  week’s PPN.    Happily for those of us in the Northern hemisphere there are some salads and for those in the depths of winter a pasta bake or two! [...]

Its Friday – Its Presto Pasta Night!

It has been some months since I lasted hosted Presto Pasta Nights and I am delighted to be hosting PPN #171 next Friday 9th July.  If you have not had your friday supper yet, this friday’s round up, hosted by the event’s founder Ruth at Once Upon a Feast should give you lots of ideas. [...] [...]

Tamari & Pak Choi Pasta

Sometimes the most simple dishes can be the most delicious.   This simple pasta contains only 4 ingredients which come together to make a delicious whole.    It is also fantastic cold, but I think that I would use broccoli in place of the pak choy. ( Whilst writing this up I discovered that pak choy and [...] [...]

Greens, Goat’s Cheese and Pasta Frittata

This week Ruth’s Presto Pasta Nights is hosted by Katie at Thyme for Cooking. Ever since I made  my five greens pasta last week I have become mildly obsessed with greens and my fridge is bursting at the seams with them. My submission this week is a frittata; using pasta in place of the more [...] [...]

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