Comforting bowls of pasta with chestnuts and mushrooms . Use ready cooked vacuum packed or frozen chestnuts to save time and effort. The recipe is from Southern France and i found it in the excellent ” Simple” by Diana Henry. Its a winner.
A Central European Pasta dish which I found in ” Cook as You Are ” by Ruby Tandoh, although she credits it to a tweet from Romanian food writer Irina Georgescu.
A great supper from ” Cook Simple2 by Diana Henry. The salmon caviar makes it special, but is expensive so can be omitted. If you like you can add cooked peas or little spears of asparagus when in season. You can use smoked trout instead of salmon, or a mixture of smoked and fresh cooked salmon.
A simple but luxurious pasta from ” Cook Simple” by Diana Henry. For a change you can use flakes of cooked salmon instead of Parma Ham, and add asparagus when it is in season.
Another very good pasta dish from ” Cook Simple” by Diana Henry. If you like replace some of the stock with some dry Marsala or White wine to give it a richer flavour.
A good recipe for the cooler months from ” Cook Simple” by Diana Henry. If you like you can toss torn rocket or baby spinach leaves into the pasta before adding the sauce if you want something a bit more substantial.
