Quick garlic-chilli greens and pasta
A super-quick dinner of green vegetables cooked in garlic and chilli, served with pasta. Kale, spinach, broccoli, or other green vegetables of …
Squash-stuffed pasta shells in cream sauce
We were kindly given some black truffles last Christmas and haven’t really known what to do with them! We decided to use …
Pesto
Home-made pesto is so easy to make I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to make it. We made traditional pine-nut …
Minestrone
Hearty, bean-y tomato-y soup with pasta and herbs – this is a meal in itself, although it is especially nice with hot …
Creamy cheesy mushroom pasta
Lazy supper tonight – super-easy mushroom pasta in a creamy sauce. Serves 4 About 8 mushrooms Pasta 1tsp thyme Olive oil 2 …
Blue cheese pasta sauce
We sometimes make a variant of this with loads of blue cheese and sour cream, which makes it really rich. This was …
Pasta with caramelised onions, goat’s cheese and spinach (“Padana” pasta)
My favourite Pizza Express pizza is the Padana, which is tomato sauce, caramelised onions, goat’s cheese, spinach and mozzarella. This combines those …
Mushroom and goat’s cheese lasagne
This is a bit of a faff to make (I think it uses every saucepan we own), but it tastes so damn …
Macaroni cheese bake
Comfort food, especially if you put in as much cheese as I do. This one had green veg in, in an attempt …