STEPS 4 INGREDIENTS 8 TIME 1 HR This easy pasta recipe is my brother-in-law Mauro’s favorite pasta meal, and I don’t blame him a bit because this soupy dish is full of tasty stuff. Packed with sweet green peas and juicy chunks of belly bacon, this dish uses broken spaghetti, which is simply cooked in […]

STEPS 5, INGREDIENTS 14+, TIME 80 MINS This beginner-friendly minestrone soup recipe is a ‘throw it all in the pan’ style beauty, although in truth it hardly qualifies as a soup at all… That’s because in Italian ‘minestra’ actually means broth (in other words, soup with big chunky bits in), so this family filling minestrone […]

STEPS 6 INGREDIENTS 7 TIME 30 MINS This deliciously filling pasta fagioli recipe – which is sometimes spelt wrongly as ‘pasta fagiole’ and is strictly speaking called pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) – is a true winter warmer and really easy to make… Pasta fagioli made with red carrot-flavor Barilla pasta shapes With this […]