One of the best (starter size) dinners I've ever had...

I fried some chopped bacon with olive oil until nearly crisp, then added stripped courgette, some spring onion, and some red chilli. It was then all stir fried for a couple of minutes more with a little bit of water to create some steam, then finished with some black pepper, lemon juice and parmesan. It was wicked - there's just something so nice about bacon with greens!

From the garden

Our first of hopefully many. Some lettuce leaves and and nasturtium flowers (which to be honest, I didn't eat).

Making tomato sauce

A few months back I went to quite a lot of effort over a saturday to create a pretty amazing pasta sauce. I've done it a couple of times since, and again this weekend. It's quite a lengthy process and actually requires a bit of hard work. But it's well worth it. Pasta with a nice tomato sauce is one of my favourite things.



I want to share the recipe, but my friend Sarah fancies her chances in an arrabiata-off, so until that happens it's going to have to stay secret.