Category: Pasta
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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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Rigatoni all’amatriciana (bacon, tomato, chilli)
I don’t eat pasta very often these days because of the carb count but, when I do, I want a punchy sauce that makes it totally worth it. This popular and tasty recipe comes from the town of Amatrice, which is situated on the slopes of the Tronto valley in central Italy’s Abruzzi region. Use…
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Hot smoked salmon on a bed of pasta with spinach
I came across some fabulous hot smoked salmon at my local farmers market recently (Wyken Vineyards since you ask!) and created this dish to showcase it. You could use unsmoked salmon fillets but the flavour of the hot smoked version served on this bed of pasta with a creamy spinach and mustard sauce is hard…
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