Favourite Pasta Recipe?

[EcclesCake]

I don't eat a lot of pasta and I'm looking for some inspiration to get me out of a rut.

So, tell me, what is your favourite pasta dish?

[-Talbot-]

Lasagna by a mile.

[Old_Geezer]

Tuna pasta bake is nice too.

It seems whatever recipe one gets a favourite flavour to add to the pasta ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

Now I think of it, most with seafood.

Macaroni Cheese is an old favourite too.

[ummmm]

Seafood spaghetti. Made very much the same as mussels in white wine.

[Captain2]

One of our easy evening meals if we've all been working.
Cook, drain and return pasta spirals to pan; stir in tablespoon of olive oil then just bung in (cooking term for you there) green pesto, baby tomatoes, pitted black olives, chopped cooked ham, loads of baby spinach and crushed chilli flakes to desired taste.
Can be served hot in winter (quick 30-45 second ping) or cool in summer.
Well, we all like it.

[RandyMarsh]

Sainsbury do a lemon pesto, it is only 99p a jar and i would pay 5 times that for it.

With fresh pasta you can be eating it in 4 mins.

[EcclesCake]

Thanks for the ideas.

As i've been told that Bombay Sapphire and Sipsmith gin are on offer in Sainsbury I will also pick up some lemon pesto while I'm there and give it a try.

Is it in the chiller cabinet?

[Clanad]

A favorite in our house is 2 cups of thickly diced chicken breast lightly browned in olive oil in a largish skillet to which is added 2 or 3 cups of sliced colored peppers... you know the kind, bell peppers that have turned red, yellow and orange, plus one fairly large onion. To this is added a small palmfull of cardomom and a goodly pinch of smoked paprika. All cooked over medium heat for maybe 20 minutes. This is then tossed with whole wheat fettucine... Mmmm, good!

As an aside, a cup, here in the U.S. is about equal to a double handful or more precisely 0.236588236 liter.

[mccfluff]

pesto is my fave with lots of pine nuts

and mac n cheese

[EcclesCake]

I've gone for a Caponata style sauce as I had everything apart from an aubergine in the fridge.

Tomorrow I can have the leftovers as a topping for bruschetta :-)

[DTCwordfan]

Homemade Macaroni cheese - with leeks and bacon added - and yes the chipotle pepper....!

[DTCwordfan]

oh, and cherry toms on the top fifteen minutes out.....

[jennyjoan]

angel hair aka capella - very fine noodle -

[retrocop]

Tinned Tuna with Anchovys and penne pasta with garlic and onion

[B00]

Everything tastes better with chorizo in it, including pasta.

[sherrardk]

Mine like smoked sausage in a tomato and garlic sauce.

[EcclesCake]

Mr Cake firmly believes that there isn't a vegetarian dish that cannot be improved by the addition of chorizo/smoked sausage/bacon........

[ethandron]

We don't eat a heck of a lot of pasta either and I don't really know why as we both enjoy it. Anyhow, we have two favourites:
The one I do most often involves passata, chopped bacon or lardons, red onion, chilli and a good glug of balsamic. We usually have that with penne, we're going to have it tomorrow evening.
The other one, which we havent had in ages but which I used to make regularly
has mushrooms, thinly sliced courgettes, strips of ham or fried bacon, and creme fraiche, with loads of Parmesan stirred through. We have that with farfalle. Looking up the recipe has reminded me how nice it is so I'm going to make it next week.
I can't abide warm tuna, tuna pasta bake is the devils work. Can't say your aubergine one floats my boat either Eccles, was it nice?