Category: Pasta
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Braised sausages with orzo and peppers
I got this beautiful black Chasseur casserole dish for Christmas and it’s perfect for cooking dishes that need breadth not depth. I love braised sausages and my butcher makes lots of different varieties – the Cambridge, Old English, Bury Bangers, Chorizo and wild venison; he also stocks the Suffolk Salami Company salami with fennel which…
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Pasta shells with broccoli and anchovy sauce
This recipe originally comes from the Apulia region of southern Italy. Anchovies are used in lots of savoury dishes and here they combine successfully with broccoli cooked so it still has a little bite to it, and shell-shaped or orecchiette pasta topped with Parmesan and a crisp pangratto crumb. Pangratto was used in poorer households as…
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Penne alla vodka
This is one of those deceptively simple pasta dishes that takes less than half an hour to get to the table but truly delivers on flavour. The vodka binds the tomato and cream in the sauce to make it rich and silky but you don’t really taste it, it simply leaves a pleasing background heat.…
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Pigeon Cottage Kitchen 