pasta Archive

  • Duck ragu with Pasta

    Braised duck ragu

    This recipe for duck ragu fits the slow food theme in many ways. Quite apart from the length of time it takes to cook (NB it’s not at all labour intensive time), it also takes some time to source the ingredients. Our supermarkets don’t carry...

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    Free range egg fettucini with Calamari Sauce

    The cool change arrived with a vengeance. After a sweltering and steamy day, the mercury dropped by 10 C in half an hour. Then the rain came down. The rain which is still coming down, in a deluge that soaked pedestrians to the skin, sent...

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  • Slow Roasted tomatoes for a Quick Pasta dinner

    Slow Roasted tomatoes for a Quick Pasta dinner

    The idea of creating a meal from scratch on weeknights is often very unappealing. But the shortcuts, when you think about it, aren’t that appealing either. Salt-laded, fat loaded, chemical-loaded pre-prepared meals or components of meals. Usually coming with lots of packaging, and often more...

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