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Creamy tomato and prawn pasta

Posted in Creme fraiche, Main dish, Pasta, Seafood, Shellfish on February 2, 2012| 3 Comments »

Creamy prawn pasta

I cannot believe that, given how much pasta I eat, the last time I posted a pasta recipe was in October. That is madness! Utter madness. It is my favourite food and if I could only eat pasta forever I’d… well, I’d cry, because pasta isn’t cake, but it’d definitely be near the top of my “foods I wouldn’t mind eating forever whilst not being allowed to eat anything else, once I’d got used to not being allowed cake” list. Yes, the titles of my lists are always that snappy. Yes, I make many lists. Be quiet now. This is on my most favouritest pastas list

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Roasted vegetable and tomato tagliatelle with ricotta

Posted in Main dish, Pasta, Ricotta, Vegetarian, tagged , , , , on October 17, 2011| 5 Comments »

Last week, my mum and I went out for tea to Strada. I was getting a little worried looking at the menu because I wasn’t in the mood for much of what was on offer (apart from the desserts, hehe). In the end, we both ended up choosing tomato and roasted vegetable rigatoni topped with ricotta and it turned out to be absolutely delicious. We agreed that it needed recreating at home and so I decided to have a go. It turned out ace. Eat your vegetables!

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Baked sausage and mushroom stuffed pasta shells

Posted in Main dish, Mozzarella, Pasta, Sausages, tagged , , , , on October 3, 2011| 11 Comments »

 

I did not realise, when I decided to make this, how much of an arse-ache it would be to get pasta shells. I naively went to my usual supermarket and happily (that bit might be a lie, grocery shopping makes me angry) trotted (also a lie, I never trot) up and down the aisles picking up my shopping, when I got to the pasta aisle. I looked at the big pasta shapes they had. Not there. “Hmm,” I thought, “I must not be looking properly” (this happens a lot). I looked at the small pasta shells. Nope, not there either. In fact, after 10 minutes of searching (and panicking) it transpired that they did not stock large pasta shells. They had what can only be described as slightly-larger-than-small-but-not-even-medium-sized pasta shells. (more…)

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Risotto all’arrabiata

Posted in Bacon, Main dish, Pasta, tagged , , on October 1, 2011| 2 Comments »

This recipe has been waiting and waiting and WAITING for me to finish my exams so that it could finally be posted. And now that it’s finally here, you need to make this. When I first tasted it, I actually paused in shock at how good it is. Really. I don’t do that. I eat my food as quickly as possible before something awful can happen that might stop me from finishing my food, like the world ending or me dropping my plate because I’m clumsy. Remember that time the world ended and you didn’t get to eat half of that amazing risotto? Exactly. (more…)

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Tex-mex enchilada pasta bake

Posted in Beef, Main dish, Mexican, Pasta, tagged , , , , on September 20, 2011| 6 Comments »

After turning Philly cheese steak into pasta last week, I’ve been thinking about what else would be fun to turn into pasta. I decided on beef enchiladas. (more…)

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Gnocchi with mushrooms, spinach, bacon and poached egg

Posted in Bacon, Eggs, Main dish, Pasta, Vegetarian, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2011| 8 Comments »

 

Gnocchi with bacon and egg

I subscribe to two cooking magazines, Good Food and Olive, and every month I fold down the pages of recipes I like the look of and then happily put the magazines on my bookshelf and forget all about them. When I look through them again, there are always recipes I’ve marked which are a bit different to my normal tastes, and I’m fairly certain I will never make them. This is one of those recipes, and this week I decided I was just going to go for it. If I didn’t like it, I could just not make it again. But I did like it. A lot. (more…)

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Philly cheese steak pasta

Posted in Beef, Main dish, Pasta, tagged , , , on September 7, 2011| 8 Comments »

Philly cheese steak might be the best sammich ever invented, and pasta might be my favourite food ever, so it seemed only natural to combine the two. This is gooey, cheesy and unashamedly tacky. Make it and put it in your face. (more…)

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Chicken and courgette carbonara

Posted in Bacon, Creme fraiche, Egg yolks, Main dish, Pasta, Poultry, tagged , , , on September 4, 2011| 5 Comments »

As I love to add courgette to EVERYTHING, I was excited when I saw a recipe for Courgette carbonara a couple of years ago in Jamie at Home by Jamie Oliver. I copied out the recipe and I’ve made it often ever since.  Except that I haven’t, really. I’ve changed it every time until it’s morphed into something which doesn’t really resemble Jamie Oliver’s recipe at all, other than the fact that it has courgette in it. So I’m claiming it as my own. Is that too cheeky? (more…)

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Cheesy chicken and mushroom spaghetti

Posted in Creme fraiche, Double cream, Main dish, Pasta, Poultry, tagged , , , on August 25, 2011| 2 Comments »

A few days ago I saw this recipe and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. I’ll admit, I’ve never actually heard of chicken spaghetti and I have no idea what Velveeta is, but cheese, chicken and mushrooms sounds good to me. (more…)

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Brie, tomato and bacon pasta

Posted in Bacon, Main dish, Pasta, tagged , , , on August 15, 2011| 1 Comment »

How ace is melted brie? I mean, it’s yummy cold in sammiches, but melted it is just beautiful. I could just rub it all over my face. It would burn though. Do you know how hot melted cheese is? Way hot. Not good for faces. (more…)

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