Archive for September, 2008

Homemade Gnocchi I had a fantastic weekend, generally cooking and eating lots of fabulous things. There’s nothing like a bit of time to spend pottering in the kitchen, hence homemade gnocchi. I tried making this once at university with pumpkin I think, anyway it was a disaster, the high water content in the pumpkin just made gloopy […]

Roasted Red Pepper Pesto Mmmmm, I can’t begin to describe how good this pesto is, I just had some leftovers for my lunch and its even better than yesterday. For some reason we ended up with 4 red peppers in the fridge, I decided to roast them as I’m a bit fussy about raw peppers, in that I’m not […]

Spaghetti Puttanesca Ah, the holy trinity of capers, olives and anchovies, they go so well together. You can’t really beat a puttanesca, I used fresh tomatoes in this recipe, but that’s mostly because we had lots. I think this is perfectly fine with chopped tomatoes. The intensity of flavour in the anchovy, capers and olives see to […]