Fried Aubergine Pasta

A week of eating in motorway service stations, a broken down car, three garages and arriving in North Shields where … More

Affects of Size: Chickpeas and Pasta

I find there is a great qualitative (not only quantitative) effect when pasta is the same size as chickpeas. Eating them together … More

– This took me 15 minutes to make for a late night supper for one. Sam tried some when he … More

– I didn’t have any fresh ingredients for supper apart from some garlic and a packet of smoked lardons and … More

Inspired by an image of nettle Tagliarini with dock leaves posted by Tim Siadatan, chef and co-owner at Trullo (an … More

The starter from Henry’s birthday meal The sauce, before being mixed with pasta On Sunday it was a mild, windy … More

This meal was a brief, pleasurable interlude in a mad day of work, in which I was writing until 2am. … More

photo by Joanna A day or two before my friend and colleague Marion went off to Australia to run a fashion … More

Pasta is something I’ve been meaning to cook for a while, but other dishes kept sidetracking me – for example, … More

On Monday I had some dry-cure, smoked streaky bacon left over from pot-roasting a pheasant on Sunday. Three pieces to … More