I’ve wanted to try walnuts with pasta for a while now, ever since I saw Nigella Lawson’s recipe for walnut pasta, and this dish is inspired by that recipe. Toasting the walnuts really enhances their nuttiness and they’ve worked fantastically here with the mushrooms, garlic, cheese and bacon. The dish is substantial enough without the [...]
This pasta dish was just what we needed tonight to fill us up and warm us through.
There’s a definate chill around the house tonight, so much so that my toes are cold inside my socks, and we’ve put the heating on. I don’t mind so much, I’m starting to get ready to embrace the cooler weather; I bought some cotton tops from Marks and Spencer yesterday (I’ll be layering for warmth [...]
It was one of those ‘what shall I have for lunch, the cupboard is bare?’ days. A pasta day, in other words. Fortunately the cupboard, or rather, the fridge, wasn’t entirely bare and I did manage to put the field mushrooms, half a savoy cabbage and half a small tub of sour cream sitting in [...]
So many recipes use only the white meat from a crab and shamelessly disregard the brown, but this one makes good use of both so it’s perfect for those times when you buy a dressed crab on impulse and don’t know what to do with it (or is it just me that does that?). Read post
When cooking spaghetti do you stand at the cooker holding it in a pan of boiling water, waiting for it to soften so you can gently feed it, bit by bit, into the water? I always used to, until my Father-in-law taught me this little trick. Simply pop your spaghetti into the centre of the [...]
