Tag: pasta
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Spaghetti Carbonara
Traditional Spaghetti Carbonara consists of pasta, a beaten egg, hard aged Italian cheese and guanciale. I use pancetta or shortcut bacon if I don’t have any of the latter. I love this version just as much as the one I make with heavy cream. Check it out here – Spaghetti Carbonara With Cream. The Technique…
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PK’s Easy Mac And Cheese With Bacon
This easy Macaroni and Cheese recipe tastes so much better than the store bought dried version. It is great comfort food and I love making it. I bet you have all the ingredients in your house already so let’s get started. 🙂 Dietary notes: The bacon is totally optional and you can easily adapt the…
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PK Makes Spaghetti Cacio E Pepe (Cheese And Pepper)
Oh my goodness. This dish is well.. amazing. My head is spinning, I used to have a favourite pasta but now I can’t choose. 🙂 I posted about Spaghetti Aglio e Olio recently and said that upon tasting it ‘I had died and gone to heaven’. So my friend and fellow blogger, Gus, set me a…
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PK’s Spaghetti Aglio E Olio (Garlic And Oil)
This traditional Neapolitan pasta dish could not be simpler nor more sublime. The first time I made this spaghetti tossed in garlic and olive oil, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. 🙂 How amazing is this? You only need flour, water, garlic, olive oil and cheese (Parmigiano-Reggiano if you have it). You will…
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Spaghetti Carbonara With Cream
This rich creamy spaghetti carbonara will not win any health awards but jeapers it is tasty. 🙂 It also isn’t particularly authentic due to the addition of cream. I love the more traditional egg only version too (Spaghetti Carbonara) but this one is my go to comfort food pasta dish. I make it in large batches…
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Pasta: Spaghetti, Spaghettoni, Capellini And Bucatini
Spaghetti is my favourite type of pasta, especially the hollow version (called bucatini) as I find the texture nicer and it holds the sauce better. For most of us, spaghetti is the convenient form of long circular strands of dried pasta (pasta secca) made from wheat and water. Home-made raw pasta (pasta fresca) can have the addition…
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How To Make Browned Butter Sauce
Browned butter sauce has a caramel/nutty flavour and I think the addition of sage works just as well for seafood, pasta, chicken and beef. The pleasure of watching and smelling this sauce cook is sublime. The stages are so clear that they belie the difficulty level. When you get it right for the first time…
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PK’s Chicken And Pasta Soup
Simply take a chicken frame or two (hopefully from the whole chicken you just deboned) and place in your slow cooker. Now add water until the frames are covered. Sometimes I also throw in a chicken leg or two (on the bone). Chop up a brown onion, several celery sticks and several carrots (I leave them…
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PK’s Fettuccine In Egg Sauce
I think there are only two types of people on this planet and it comes down to pasta to sauce ratios :). I fall into the lots and lots of pasta with just a little sauce camp. So this easy peasy way of making a quick lunch or dinner is right up my alley. If…
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PK’s NoRecipe Fettuccine In Egg Sauce
I think there are only two types of people on this planet and it comes down to pasta to sauce ratios :). I fall into the lots and lots of pasta with just a little sauce camp. So this easy peasy way of making a quick lunch or dinner is right up my alley. If…
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