An easy lunch or supper from Thomasina Miers which i think would also work very well with some purple sprouting broccoli. She also suggests nettles or wild garlic as alternatives to use in the spring. Serve with a green salad dressed in a sharp vinaigrette.
In my view you can never have enough recipes for Brussels Sprouts, a vegetable i love if treated with respect and not boiled to a slush. This recipe is from ” Nigellissima” by Nigella Lawson.
While ear shaped Orecchiette is not always as easy to source as some other pasta shapes, it is one of my favourites as it holds the sauce so well. This is from ” The Kitchen Diaries” by Nigel Slater. I prefer to use fresh broad beans but frozen are fine too.
I already have a version of Spaghetti Vesuvius on this site, but this version from Sophie Grigson’s ” Sunshine Food” is good when fresh tomatoes are in season. You want the ripest, fully flavoured tomatoes for this.
