just pasta savoury delights

spaghetti with mozzarella

As I mentioned before … I’ve got a special book about pasta: Vincenzo Buonassisi’s pasta cookbook (published in the 70s) with lots of pasta recipes. It’s a cookbook without any photos & the recipes are short – reduced to the essentials. Nevertheless it’s a treasury of ideas how to prepare pasta adding vegetables, meat, fish and seafood … When roaming the book … I got intrigued by a simple approach to spaghetti with tomato sauce…

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just pasta savoury delights

pasta with peas and mushrooms

In my assembly of cookbooks there is a special book about pasta: Vincenzo Buonassisi’s pasta cookbook (published in the 70s) with lots of pasta recipes. It’s a cookbook without any photos & the recipes are short – reduced to the essentials. Nevertheless it’s a treasury of ideas how to prepare pasta adding vegetables, meat, fish and seafood … (As a rule the recipes start with 500 g pasta as the basis!) Browsing the cookbook I…

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just pasta savoury delights

pasta salmon spinach

Another week came to an end, another weekend approached. Corona times suck. 1st of all: if something sucks you’ll definitely need pasta. When examining my freezer I found a last single piece of salmon. I thought it might be high time to work w/ it. I also had left some spring onions in my fridge … & I also found some spinach leaves – leftovers of a salad I made 2 days ago, also a…

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