pasta Archive

  • Light Choices? That's got to be so wrong hasn't it? I certainly would never consider eating a low-fat Mars Bar and if I ordered a Doner Kebab 'Lite' from the local takeaway shop I'm likely to find myself stuffed into a bin liner and thrown into a river faster than you can say, 'What wrong you? You leave shop. I call brother'. Alright Sister, calm down. Woah, put down that big axe, there's no need for th ...

    Product review: Tesco Light Choices Ham and Mushroom Tagliatelle

    Posted on April 28, 2011 | No Comments
    Light Choices? That's got to be so wrong hasn't it? I certainly would never consider eating a low-fat Mars Bar and if I ordered a Doner Kebab 'Lite' from the local takeaway shop I'm likely to find myself stuffed into a bin liner and thrown into a river faster than you can say, 'What wrong you? You leave shop. I call brother'. Alright Sister, calm down. Woah, put down that big axe, there's no need for th ...

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  • Some things are just 'right' aren't they? Laurel and Hardy, Cornish and Pasty, Doncaster and Sunshine, Chegwin and Nakedness. They all go as if all the atoms in all the worlds had come together to make one perfect union. And so it is with pasta and pesto. Two similar words yet two different ingredients. Pasta, that great staple of anyone's store cupboard (forget the Italians, they let it go ages ago) and pesto, a perfect amalgamation of basil, garlic, toasted pine nuts, olive oil, cheese and lemon juice. Throw in a bit of salt and freshly-ground pepper and I'm in hog heaven. Put pasta in the pesto or the pesto in the pasta, I'm not bothered, they make a perfect dish.

    Product review: Tesco Finest Spinach and Pine Nut Pasta

    Posted on April 28, 2011 | 4 Comments
    Some things are just 'right' aren't they? Laurel and Hardy, Cornish and Pasty, Doncaster and Sunshine, Chegwin and Nakedness. They all go as if all the atoms in all the worlds had come together to make one perfect union. And so it is with pasta and pesto. Two similar words yet two different ingredients. Pasta, that great staple of anyone's store cupboard (forget the Italians, they let it go ages ago) and pesto, a perfect amalgamation of basil, garlic, toasted pine nuts, olive oil, cheese and lemon juice. Throw in a bit of salt and freshly-ground pepper and I'm in hog heaven. Put pasta in the pesto or the pesto in the pasta, I'm not bothered, they make a perfect dish.

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  • This is the kind of dish I have been wanting to cook ever since I started growing stuff in my garden at the beginning of the year. Peas and Broad...

    Recipe: Pasta Primavera

    Posted on August 4, 2010 | No Comments
    This is the kind of dish I have been wanting to cook ever since I started growing stuff in my garden at the beginning of the year. Peas and Broad...

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  • This one was at Mrs Papa’s request. “Make me Courgette Carbonara please”, she said. How could I refuse? Except, my crop of peas is reaching bumper proportions so they had...

    Recipe: Bacon, Courgette and Pea Pasta

    Posted on July 7, 2010 | No Comments
    This one was at Mrs Papa’s request. “Make me Courgette Carbonara please”, she said. How could I refuse? Except, my crop of peas is reaching bumper proportions so they had...

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