Goat’s Cheese, Roasted Pepper & Basil Pasta

This recipe involved the dazzling debut of our latest item of kitchen equipment – a Black Iron Omelette Pan bought for the bargain price of £7.60. It came from Dentons Catering Equipment Ltd – a magnificent shop crammed with professional quality cooking gear and definitely worth a pilgrimage – providing you can tolerate the multitude of cityboy urban tossers infesting Clapham.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20-30 minutes
Skill level: Easy
Serves: 2 greedy people

Ingredients

• pasta – enough for 2 – about 220g
• 3 red peppers
• goat’s cheese – 150-200g
• garlic – 2 cloves – crushed
• olive oil – a good slug – about 4 tbsp
• basil leaves – a whole supermarket plant
• s & p

De-seed the peppers, put in a baking dish, drizzle with olive oil and place in a hot oven until soft and slightly blackened. Remove from the oven and when cool enough to handle, remove the skin and cut into slices.

Cook the pasta as per instructions.

Meanwhile put the oil, garlic and basil leaves in a frying pan and cook until the basil starts to crackle. Add the peppers and cheese and stir until the cheese has melted into a smooth mixture.

Mix with the drained pasta.

Serve with a green salad.

Verdict: Ambrosial, appetising, choice, delectable, delightful, divine, enchanting, enticing, esculent, exquisite, flavourful, gustable, gustatory, heavenly, luscious, nectarean, nectareous, nectarous, palatable, piquant, pleasing, rich, savoury, scrumptious, sweet, tasteful, tempting, toothsome, thesaurus, yummy.

Drink: Filtered Tower Hamlets water.

Entertainment: ‘The Supersizers Go…Victorian’. Excellent stuff.