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This Cornish Chilli Chorizo Pasta recipe is easy, tasty and ready in about 30 minutes, making it an ideal midweek meal.

A delicious and easy, caramelised shallot pasta recipe, with sweet caramelised shallots, tangy tomatoes and salty anchovies. The perfect Friday night pasta dish! This one is most definitely for the adults.

    Penne Alla Vodka is a classic Italian pasta dish made with penne pasta in a creamy tomato and vodka sauce. Very easy but oh so tasty!

Ever fancied a Hawaiian Pizza in pasta form? My best macaroni cheese features all of the elements of a Hawaiian pizza. Think salty gammon, sweet pineapples and sun dried tomatoes with creamy mozzarella. Perfect comfort food!

A quick Bolognese recipe using ready made pasta sauce. We all need a speedy pasta meal once in a while don't we?!  This quick and easy Bolognese recipe  definitely ticks the speedy box by making use of some yummy new products from the M&S Italian Collection .

This sweet potato macaroni cheese combines mashed sweet potato, salty feta and smoky paprika in this deliciously cheesy pasta bake.

A rich pasta recipe using the Cornish cheese russet squire, streaky bacon and sun dried tomatoes. There's a brand new cheese on the block....although this one is most certainly of the round variety. 

A healthy kale and walnut pesto made in the Optimum Vac2 Vacuum Blender.

An indulgent cheesy macaroni recipe using leftover cheeses in your fridge. The ultimate in comfort food.

A dreamy macaroni cheese made in minutes in the Pressure King Pro, using mature cheddar, Gruyere and Parmesan .

If you're a regular reader of this blog you'll know all about my obsession with macaroni cheese and variations of it. I made a Sweet Potato and Feta Mac n Cheese recently and thought it couldn't get any better than that. Well, I was wrong! This  Butternut Squash and Sage Macaroni Cheese is seriously yummy and the ultimate comfort food at this time of year. I baked a halved butternut squash with a whole unpeeled garlic clove and a handful of sage leaves in a low oven until really soft and tender.  All the lovely baked veggies were then whizzed up in a food processor to a smooth consistency before stirring into the regular cheese sauce I make for Mac 'n' Cheese. It gave the dish a lovely rich colour and the garlic and sage added a beautiful delicate flavour. Obviously the butternut squash adds some nutritional value to the macaroni cheese recipe, but more importantly it gives it this amazing creamy texture too....without the calories. It tastes so good and is...

You can forget the diet with this Creamy Caramelised Onion, Grana Padano and Proscuitto Pasta recipe - but the calories are SO WORTH IT! This is my all time favourite Saturday night dinner in front of the TV with a cheeky glass of dry white wine. Ahhh I'm dreaming about it now! The onions are cooked for a really long time to bring out their sweetness which contrasts so well with the nutty pine nuts and salty proscuitto. I use marsala in this recipe, which is a fortified wine from Sicily, but ordinary white wine would work OK too. If you did want to try and cut the calories a little bit, you could use half fat creme fraiche instead of the double cream, but I think if you're going to enjoy it, enjoy it in its full glory and go for the double cream! You wont be sorry - just do an extra 20 minutes of exercise the next day if it makes you feel better. That's my tactic. TOP TIPS FOR MAKING THIS CARAMELISED ONION, GRANA PADANO AND PROSCUITTO PASTA Cook the onions s...

Mac 'n' Cheese is by far and away my favourite comfort food. You only need to look at my weekly meal plan posts to realise how often it features. Recently I've been trying some variations to my usual recipe , including a very tasty Sweet Potato Mac n Cheese  and a cauliflower and broccoli one too. I've also spied a yummy looking Chorizo and Butternut Squash version over on Farmersgirl Cooks which has gone on my list to make soon! I usually use the roux method for making my cheese sauce, cooking the macaroni separately before stirring it in at the end. This recipe however uses a completely different method, with the macaroni pasta cooking in the milk and ale sauce before stirring in the grated cheese and placing under the grill to give it a bit of colour. It's a truly one pan meal, which makes cleaning up afterwards nice and easy! The ale I used in this was a  Hiver  Honey Ale and it gave the dish a welsh rarebit kind of flavour. It's really rich (just...

Foolishly, I've been trotting along quite happily thinking there was nothing I could do to better my classic Mac n Cheese recipe . It tastes great, it's never let me down, it's a great carrier of leftover ham and all sorts of vegetables, the kids like it, hubby likes it, I love it....turns out though, I could better it. THIS little beauty is my new favourite Macaroni Cheese recipe, containing the quite unlikely ingredient of sweet potatoes. It has an unusual but highly addictive smoky sweet flavour, thanks to the sweet potatoes and smoked paprika in the sauce, but it's also intensely creamy and indulgent. Not one, but two cheeses are used in this one, the classic extra mature cheddar and also crumbled salty feta which contrasts so well with the sweetness of the potatoes. The colour is a rather vibrant orange, which makes it look like it's been made with fake plastic burger cheese, but if you can get past the lurid colour you wont be disappointed. There is a...

A creamy pasta dish using leftover roast chicken, bacon and tarragon.

One very yummy frugal lasagne recipe which is perfect for the weekend! There's no beef mince in this, just a smoked bacon and tomato sauce, which cuts the costs down considerably. It also means preparation is a little quicker as there's no need to simmer the tomato sauce for as long as you would a ragu. Have a good weekend whatever you're up to. I'm planning on lots of gardening so fingers crossed the weather holds. I'll be back on Sunday with my weekly meal plan. CHEESY SMOKED BACON AND TOMATO LASAGNE print recipe Smoked Bacon and Tomato Lasagne by Beth Sachs March-4-2016 A frugal lasagne recipe using a tomato and bacon sauce in place of the usual beef ragu Ingredients For the tomato and bacon sauce: 1 TBSP Olive Oil 2 Onions, chopped 2 Garlic Cloves, chopped 1 TSP Dried Oregano Handful of Basil, chopped 250g Smoked Bacon, chopped 700ml Passata 1 TBSP Tomato Puree 1 TSP Sugar For the cheese sauce:...