spaghetti with garlic & spinach and minestrone soup

With the available ingredients we have a choice of three things tonight: Tomato puff and spinach salad, pasta with cherry tomato sauce or this. Given the cold the tomato puff and salad is binned, and we had cherry tomato pasta last week so this old Bill Granger recipe gets the nod.

Given my chilli plant is feeling the strain of being the sole provider of heat, it gets laced with some of the bastard-hot dried chillis Kayosaurus brought me last year. Not too many mind, but just enough to sear the tongue.


The other bonus about this dish is it's really quick, which gives me time to make a massive batch of minestrone soup for lunch for us all tomorrow. I haven't made it for ages, not since Putney I should think, and I'm afraid to say Brenda, it's a Black Book Special. I think from WFI? It also manages to use up two almost empty bags of random pasta, which I'm happier about than Mrs H Corners.



Food of the Milos
Cheerios, apricots and phili for breakker, tomato pasta and tuna for lunch (he didn't eat the tuna, again), and ratatouille for dinner - which he loves - followed by some mango.

sources
spaghetti with garlic and spinach - Bill Granger, Every Day, p98
la minestra di Orazio - Black Book, I think it's from WFI