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Recipes
Chicken sausage and lemon, baked as a lasagna
A lasagna that went on holiday and came back with a tan and a lemon habit.
Serves 61 hr 5 min
Zucchini pasta with crispy capers and pistachios
Half the zucchini melts into the sauce and the other half comes back fried and sharp with vinegar.
Serves 450 min
Chicken parm sliders, twelve at once
The whole slab of rolls stays joined until the end. You bake it as one object and cut it into twelve at the table.
Serves 445 min
Four hours on the counter, then pasta
Ripe tomatoes left out until they slump and make their own dressing, and hot pasta tipped in to drink it.
Serves 625 min, plus 4 hr on the counter
Salsa cruda for peak tomatoes
Grated ripe tomato, garlic and basil. The less you do to it, the better it is.
10 min
I'm pushing these
Three this week
Featured
Tomato sauce so simple you'll die
Marcella's three ingredients, one of which you bin, and a fourth she never sanctioned.
Serves 41 hr
A ricotta pasta that begs to be messed with
Stir it in a bowl while the water boils, then fiddle until it tastes like yours.
Serves 620 min
Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.
Serves 245 min
Everything, by the handful