Tasty Pasta

Have been battling over whether to continue my food blog since it only confirms my worst fears - that I am food obsessed! guess it helps when my 9 year-old foodie son, J encouraged me to push on!

Hungry and short on time, decided to do the pasta, with animal shaped pasta (ok, so...it was the only wheat free ones I have at present in my larder). Having an allergy to wheat does not make it impossible to enjoy a good plate of pasta. Au contrare, one of the better pastas in town, is a rice pasta made by i scotti, available at good supermarkets or Culina. It's very al dente and scrumptious with any viscous sauce that it mops up so quickly.

There's nothing quite like the smell of pancetta crisping in the saucepan when one is ravenous. Recipe below:

dried good quality pasta for 2;

3 tbs single cream;
handful of peas;

1 small onion

2 small cloves of garlic;

150g dry cured pancetta or bacon

handful of parmigiano reggiano, grated

handful of coriander and sprinkling of thyme

Cook pasta in pot of boiling water with some salt. Heat 1 tbs of oil in the pan. When hot, add pancetta and cook till brown and crisp on the edges. Drain on paper towel. Use remaining oil to fry onion and garlic till fragrant. Add peas and cream and simmer for 1 min. Toss in pasta, add bacon, salt and pepper to taste. Toss in parmigiano - I like to use the microplane grater which gives the grated cheese an airy texture. Toss in coriander and thyme and mangiano (let's eat)!