A quick and easy spicy pasta that chilli lovers will adore!

a year round favourite and super quick weeknight pasta treat

'One-pot’ pasta recipes are everywhere, but what exactly is all the fuss about and are they really such a great idea?

Both irresistible and both over-exposed, has the kitten been toppled from the top of our feeds? If the algorithm gets a whiff of your foodies likes, the answer for you is probably yes it has. I’m probably a textbook case. I can remember when every other social media video featured a fwuffy bundle of mischievous laughs. But now, sadly, no more. It seems that felines are B-list when it comes to featuring on my social feed...

The Halloween pasta palette on a plate - here's an idea for a quick pasta that you can serve to ghosts and ghouls of all ages.

Here’s a fantastically autumnal pasta recipe - a smokey red pepper and pecorino sauce with smoked bacon. After Turkish Ajvar, my other inspiration for this sauce was classic Italian Amatriciana, which, as you all know, is simply a tomato sauce with guanciale and pecorino stirred through it. For this Bonfire Night variation, we’re going to stir pecorino through an Ajvar inspired sauce, then throw in shards of smoked bacon and make it taste even more Iike a bonfire with a lit

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I came across ‘stracci’ (‘rags’) in a supermarket in Montepulciano, Tuscany this summer. They’re an unusual shape and probably impossible to find outside Italy, but you could use any of the pasta I’ve listed on the left to get a similar result. This recipe is the first of this season's autumn pasta in our Italian Pasta Recipes series. It's from the first Vol of the Pasta & Magic series, Oil Sauce, which you can buy here: https://www.pastaandmagic.com/buypastaandmagic ingredie

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Probably one of the ugliest pasta dishes to photograph, Sicilian PASTA 'NCASCIATA is utterly ridiculous but a fantastically genius combination of flavours and a great baked pasta alternative to lasagne. Here's my version of this classic, authentic Sicilian pasta recipe. INGREDIENTS (5-6 people) • 500g (17.5oz) pork (mince/shoulder) • 800g tomato polpa • 2 small carrots • 2 onions •  garlic clove • 1 large celery stick • chicken stock • large handful black/green olives • nutme

It's 15th August, Ferragosto, and I'm in Sori on the Riviera East of Genova. For the first time in well over 30 years, I was attending the celebrations for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary... You can order Pasta & Magic: Oil Sauces here: https://www.pastaandmagic.com/buypastaandmagic

Welcome to the new Pastaphilia Blog. Recipes, amusements and titillations for the modern pastaphile. It's going to be fun. And emotional....