Discussion on: What was your win this week?

[Vitor Paladini]

Never seen it before, looks surprisingly minimalistic.

I'll definitely give it a try next time, thanks!

[Ben Sinclair]

Here's one I do:

1. Put the pasta water on to boil, with salt
2. roughly chop and a handful of cherry tomatoes
3. mince (think 1-2mm chunks) 2 cloves of garlic, 1 or 2 mushrooms, same amount of shallot (or onion)
4. heat a 28-30cm frying pan and add a good gulp of oil
5. put the pasta in the water (to get the right amount, fill a bowl with dried pasta and then put about 20% of it back in the cupboard)
6. put the tomatoes in the frying pan and saute for 3-4 minutes
7. add the mushroom, garlic and shallots and keep going for 1 minute
8. add enough passata to easily cover the bottom of your pan to a little more than "omelette" depth
9. add a couple of drops of worcester sauce
10. keep stirring it and add a good pinch of dried parsley, basil, salt and black pepper
11. add about half a handful of grated cheddar, and mix it in until it gets nice and thick

That makes enough for one person. It's delish.

[Vitor Paladini]

Damn, it's early morning around here and you got me craving for cheesy-mushroomy pasta.