Pasta recipes

Pasta with blue cheese and walnuts This is a seriously easy pasta sauce. Basically just stir some blue cheese, a little chopped garlic and some chopped walnuts into (hot) cooked pasta. The cheese melts and forms a silky sauce for the pasta. This is amazing if you REALLY love blue cheese otherwise, it can be a bit strong, in which case, […]

Spring Courgette Pasta My friend Kat introduced me to this way of cooking courgettes, apparently they do it in Carluccio’s… Anyway, its completely won me over, I love this way of doing it, its so simple and no more soggy, slimy courgettes. Try adding a spoonful or two of creme fraiche at the end. Although I had this […]

Pasta with Tomato and Creamy Pesto This is a summery fresh dish dreamt up by using what was in my friend Jen’s fridge, and pretty good it came out too. We fried some muhrooms and garlic, added them to pasta with pesto and a dollop of yoghurt, then we added fresh tomato at the end. We used vine tomatoes, but cherry […]

Pasta with Peas, Basil and Pumpkin Seeds I hate to say it, but another recipe from Nigel Slater. Once again the combination sounds a bit weird, but I love peas and I love basil, so I thought I’d give it a go. The toasted pumpkin seeds are delicious and go perfectly with the garlicky, oily peas. I never know what pasta to […]

Pasta with Anchovy and Tomato Sauce More pasta and more anchovies. You may be forgiven for thinking I’m obsessed, which is partly true, but you can’t can’t really go wrong with pasta can you? And anchovies are the perfect storecupboard ingredient. Having spent most of the Bank holiday watching Jamie Oliver on BBC Food, I had a hankering for pasta, I […]

Herby Pasta This was borne out of post pub hunger and trying to assemble something out of what was in the fridge. Thankfully you can’t really go wrong with garlic, capers, anchovies, olives and herbs (we had oregano and parsley). For some reason, we decided to stir in a bit of creme fraiche at the end, but […]

Spaghetti with tomato and almond pesto This is based on a recipe from Jamie’s Italy, its a delicous variation on pesto using almond instead of pine nuts and squishing the mixture into lovely ripe tomatoes to make a fresh and tasty sauce. Make sure you use good quality tomatoes, definitely not cold from the fridge, I used cherry tomatoes because they […]

Pasta with brocolli, anchovy and chilli This was inspired by a fabulous italian restuarant in Bloomsbury called Ciao Bella. They do really tasty reasonably priced Italian food. Anyway, I had this dish and it was amazing! Loads of garlic, anchovy and oil, everything you need for a good meal! So, a week or so later, when deciding what to have for […]

Leeky Chessy Pasta Yes, this is the title, I can think of none better. This is based very loosely on a recipe from Cranks Bible, my favourite vegetarian cook book ever. Although, really, it is borne out of my desire to eat cheese and pasta most days… Start by finely slicing some leeks and cooking really gently in […]

Macaroni Cheese Macaroni Cheese is without doubt, my all time favourite food. By macaroni cheese, I only mean my mum’s version, unadulterated with anything but unhealthy amounts of cheese. What could be better? Its like a hug in a bowl. As with all the best food, its steeped in memory for me, we always have macaroni cheese […]