In fact, I’ve started to make this dish at home at least once a week as I love the flavours so much. In Italy, this sauce is only ever served with broad, flat pasta such as tagliatelle or fettuccine and never with spaghetti.This is one of my signature dishes, created in the summer of 2003 on the island of Sardinia where my family and I were enjoying our holiday in our house on the beach.

If you are a fan of a simple spaghetti dish, I recommend you try this traditional Roman recipe. Just get cooking –...I never want to hear from anyone that it's hard to cook for a vegetarian.

Fresh crab is paired...When I was a child, eating smoked salmon was always a massive treat because it was so expensive. It’s so easy and yet you really feel that you have been spoiled when someone makes it for you.

Just take care when seasoning the dish because the salmon is already salty.This is a fantastic way to use smoked salmon, and many people who don’t generally like fsh – such as my wife – love this recipe. Do not overcook the prawns or langoustines...Many people steer clear of aubergine and yet it really is an easy vegetable to prepare. Pasta is to Italy as fish and chips is to Britain! We have known each other for seven years now and without fail he has to have this pasta dish at least once a week. If the béchamel and pasta are hot you can just pop the dish under the grill until the cheese melts, as I’ve done here. This unique sauce is derived from the famed Tagliolini al Limone at Angelini Osteria.Amatriciana is a complex and flavorful classic tomato sauce, infused with smoky pancetta (Italian bacon), sweet red onion, and a kick of crushed red pepper.

There are literally thousands of Italian pasta recipes, so where do you start? You don’t need a pasta machine – just mix, roll, shape and cook. You can find fregola of differing sizes in Italian delicatessens and online – it is perfect with fish or shellfish.This recipe is often served on the coast in northern Sardinia and it’s one of my favourites. Place them in a saucepan with some passata (sieved tomatoes) and heat it through; then you have created a sauce that can be used to top fish...In Italy this would traditionally have been served as an inexpensive dish to feed a crowd. To get the al dente perfect bite, cook the pasta 1 minute less then instructed on the packet. Note that cream is not used in an authentic carbonara, so none is included below. In this recipe I’ve used bucatini pasta, which is basically a thicker version of spaghetti with a hole all the way through, but of course pasta of any shape will be fine.I love recipes that require just a few good-quality ingredients and are simple to make yet really have the ‘wow factor’, such as this pasta dish with mussels.