Luxury pasta dishes

Wow your guests with inspired luxury pasta dishes.

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16th July, 2011

I grew up in a world where pasta was not on the menu. The closest we came to eating pasta was on weekends when my mother made her “pizza” pie. She lined a baking tray with her own short savoury pastry, filled it with Wattie’s spaghetti in tomato sauce, topped it with chopped onion and bacon and finally smothered the whole dish in grated cheddar. It came out of the oven with a crisp topping and we loved every bite. Today we’re spoilt for choice. Pasta and a variety of prepared sauces to pile on top of it take up almost a whole aisle in my supermarket, so it’s no wonder a pasta meal ...

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