Quickest easier tastiest pasta - share yours please

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No tomato sauce involved preferably. I love the nigella marmite spaghetti.

Smoked salmon, creme fraiche, lemon juice, black pepper. Jar of red pepper pesto, few sun dried tomatoes, black olives, parmesan. Frozen peas, mint, parmesan. I'm hungry now.

Minced prosciutto, dollop of tomato puree, bit of water. Heat to make a quick ragu type sauce.

My best friend when I was 11 was Italian. Her Mum was an amazing cook and I remember lots of lovely dishes.

She also occasionally served up pasta with baked beans. It’s surprisingly delicious though I know it sounds revolting. I still have it sometimes, and I am a total food snob. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!

Cubed bacon, fry
Grated courgette, crushed garlic, cook down
Add a little cream or creme fraiche, Parmesan

Oh and another. This was a popular dish in Cafe Pasta on High Street Ken when I worked there 25 years ago: chopped fresh tomatoes, chopped sun dried or semi dried tomatoes, diced mozzarella, salt, olive oil and fresh basil over pasta. Delicious. They stopped doing it because the sauce is uncooked therefore cold and apparently customers used to complain about that aspect But that contrast is part of what makes it so perfect.

They also had the best way of doing garlic bread: melt butter, add chopped garlic. Pour this over your halved lengthways baguette and grill (or add grated parmesan or smoked mozzarella for a change).

Pan fried parma ham, garlic, thyme, shredded cabbage, whatever sort of nuts you have got handy, butter and parmesan. Save a bit of the cooking water to help to make a sauce. By the time the pasta is cooked so is everything else.

Last week I added chestnuts and shredded sprouts because I had them left over .

Grated courgette fried with pancetta or bacon lardons

Stir into spaghetti with garlic and herb Philly and lots of black pepper

Pasta and garlic&herb soft cheese

is also delicious. I use any shape pasta and sometimes use cream cheese or crème fraîche rather than cream, depending what I have available.

A bag of frozen prawns lightly fried in olive oil with garlic and chilli and lemon juice. Stir in cooked spaghetti, sprinkle with chopped parsley. Job done!

I do my own version of marmite pasta with a shit load of mature cheddar. It’s like a marmite & cheese toastie in pasta form. Delicious!

Blitz jar of red peppers, cashews, parsley or basil and olive oil. Paremesan and heat through- add pasta

This is one of my favourite threads. Makes me happy just reading it.

Marmite pasta is amazing. I tried it for the first time yesterday and am addicted. Even ds who hates marmite loved it. To be fair it's a tiny but of marmite and shit loads of butter and cheese so you just get a salty tang.

I also love pesto in pasta. With petit pois and some fried mushrooms and courgettes.

Tin of anchovies in olive oil melted with garlic. mix with a couple of table spoons of pasta cooking water. Toss through cooked linguine, adding cooked tenderstem and capers or olives if liked and top with parmesan.

Oh and I make a lovely carbonara. Will post the recipe. It's from an old Sainsbury's recipe book and it's really good.

I’m watching so I can make some of these, my tummy’s rumbling just reading 🍝

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What's the ratio of pasta to marmite?

I’m making my own version of this tomorrow as a hearty vegetarian “start of the holidays” lunch. www.academiabarilla.com/italian-recipes/regione-lazio/pasta-with-chickpeas.aspx.
I just blend half a drained tin of chickpeas, cook scrunched-up egg tagliatelle with a good stock cube, then assemble the pasta, whole and blended chickpeas with aromatic EVO oil and plenty of Parmesan. A squeeze of tomato purée turns it from yellow to golden, but you can leave it out no problem.
Easy, quick (basically the pasta cooking time) and very healthy.

It’s the butter with the marmite in Nigella’s recipe that makes it yummy! For one I use 1dessert spoon of butter creamed with 1 teaspoon of Marmite.

Pasta. Smoked salmon or smoked haddock. Peas. Cream or creme fraiche. Lots of pepper. =dinner.

If you have more time-make little meatballs with squeezed out sausages. Brown them. Overcook a lot of broccoli. Stir broccoli into the meatballs with a glut of white wine. Chuck in cooked pasta, grated pecorino and a bit of the cooking water and a lot of pasta. I promise-incredibly delicious.

I'd have 100g pasta with about one teaspoon marmite. Nigellas recipe says less than that I think but I love marmite. Butter was probably about a tablespoon for me! Lots of parmesan too.

Crumble Gorgonzola and walnuts into hot cooked pasta, delicious.