pasta al ferno

I love cooking pasta at home because not only is it fast to cook and good to eat, you can also include any ingredients you love, not forgetting loads of it!! I've made so many different types of pasta before but two of our all-time fav has to be aglio olio and carbonara. I usually look into our fridge and throw whatever ingredients I can find together for a quick and satisfying meal. Here's an aglio olio one I whipped up recently.

Squid-ink aglio olio pasta with tiger prawns & bacon

Aglio olio is easy-peasy but getting the right texture and consistency for carbonara did take me a few tries to achieve perfection. Tried Jamie Oliver's recipe but found it rather watery. Then 2 days ago, I flipped through a new Donna Hay cookbook xmas pressie from Fifi, and came across a recipe for carbonara that uses only the yolk instead of the whole egg. Ahhh!! That make sense - egg white is watery! So I gave it a shot and here's the result. It taste so much more deeelicious than it looks, trust me!

Chilli pasta carbonara with italian sausages & bacon

Here's a lil' tip for cooking pasta: a must in your fridge for any successful homemade pasta dish - bacon and ready-diced garlic - and you're ready to go!