STEPS 4 INGREDIENTS 9 TIME 90 MINS I call this molten pork and tomato dish pasta with meat sauce because my wife Laura laughingly stopped me naming it ‘ragu-lite’ (ragu usually features beef and pork y’see). But it really is just as delicious as ragu… and so much quicker to cook. This Italian beauty (the […]

STEPS 4 INGREDIENTS 6 TIME 10 MINS (to prepare) It’s not strictly a pasta dish, but you might find this homemade meatball recipe useful if you’re looking to use beefy balls with an alternative pasta sauce, or to bolster an alternative meat-feast lasagna. As this recipe demonstrates, any fool can make these beauties! You just […]

STEPS 5 INGREDIENTS 11 TIME 50-55 MINS I learned this orecchiette pasta recipe from a friend of my mamma-in-law’s called Rosetta Chirico. A traditional ‘Pugliese’ dish (i.e. from the Puglia region of Italy), this flavorful treat is packed full of contrasts. You get the meaty taste and firm consistency of cooked and rolled beef. Inside […]

STEPS 5 INGREDIENTS 8 TIME 30 MINS This pasta with ricotta dish is the meal we cook at home most often. If there are few ingredients in the fridge, little time to spare, or a lack of energy in whoever’s cooking, the conversation goes like this: “Pasta with ricotta?”, “Sold!” It’s that tasty. This rich […]

STEPS 4, INGREDIENTS 7, TIME 20 MINS This seafood pasta recipe is 100% flexible in terms of the ingredients you can use – simply buy any seafood you like; small prawns, scallops, mussels, whatever… and mix this oily concoction together with spaghetti or linguine. You can’t fail to love munching it, because you choose what’s […]

STEPS 8, INGREDIENTS 12, TIME 40 MINS This tomato-tastic spaghetti and meatballs recipe does exactly what it says on the tin; helps you cook up and combine some tasty Italian spaghetti with basil-tinged tomato and onion sauce, and scrumptious little balls of beef (‘polpette’ in Italian). It really is the definition of a hearty treat… […]