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Spicy Sausage Pasta- a simple pasta dish with grilled Cumberland sausages and a spicy tomato and red pepper sauce. A delicious, comforting dinner. Jump to Recipe This spicy, sausage pasta recipe is just the thing to keep your family warm on a cold, wintery evening. It's pretty quick to make with grilled sausages in a tomato- based sauce and a bit of spice from the crushed chillis. It's easy to make and can be doubled to feed a crowd, if needed.

Courgette and Mushroom Pesto Pasta- a quick and easy pasta dinner with sauteed mushrooms, courgette and pesto. Perfect for 'Meat Free Monday' or a quick weeknight meal. While I make most meals from scratch myself, these days, there are still staple convenience items that are 'must buys' for me. A jar of pesto is absolutely one of them. Fresh home-made pesto is absolutely delicious, but when you need a quick dinner, a jar can't be beaten for speed. Unfortunately, shop-bought pesto tends to be made, as is tradition, with parmesan, so doesn't fit the vegetarian bill, if you are vegetarian for ethical reasons. There are now brands available such as Sacla Organic Vegetarian Pesto, which would make it truly vegetarian though. This pasta dish is about as quick and easy as they come. You simply need to pan fry the courgette and mushroom with some onion and garlic, cook the tagliatelle and then mix it all together along with some classic pesto. Quick, delicious and easy....

Creamy Leek Pasta- a quick creamy vegetarian pasta dish with leeks, courgettes and peas. Can be syn-free on Slimming World if you use Quark. Dinner ready in 20 minutes. It's been a while since we had anything new for our Meat Free Monday dinner, so this Vegetarian Creamy Leek Pasta was a real treat. Creamy Leek Pasta is not only creamy and deliciously tasty, but also bright and colourful with green veg amongst the pasta. Pan-fried leeks, and courgettes, plus some peas, give the creamy leek pasta its colour and fresh flavours. If you're fan of other green veg, like spring greens, you could throw that in too. The trick to making sure that the vegetables don't end up as green mush, is to fry the veg for just enough time and to cook the peas briefly so they all have enough bite to them to add interest to the pasta. I like to use spirali pasta because the leeks wind around it and it just looks pretty! You can use whatever you have in the cupboard though. For the creamy sauce to...

Mediterranean Pasta Bake- a vegetarian pasta bake, packed with veg- aubergine, pepper and courgette and then topped with cheese. Great for weeknight dinners and feeding a crowd. Jump to recipe I am so in love with aubergines right now. I can't get enough of them, especially when they're roasted. I love the way they caramelise and get that creamy texture and nutty flavour. I just want to put them in everything! It's this obsession with trying to get aubergine into lots of meals, and our commitment to Meat-free Mondays, that got me thinking about making a Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta Bake. The most recent pasta bake I have posted on the blog is a rather delicious Chicken and Sweetcorn version.That has a lovely rich cheesy sauce, so it's a little on the naughty side. Whereas, this Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta Bake is jam packed full of veggies and has a tomato based sauce for days when you want to eat a little lighter. Aubergine, courgette, yellow pepper, tomatoes, on...

Quick and Easy Garlic Mushroom Linguine- a quick, vegetarian pasta dish using a selection of different mushrooms, perfect for quick weeknight meals. Jump to recipe So here we are with another Meat free Monday recipe- Garlic Mushroom Linguine. If you're looking for vegetarian recipe inspiration, pasta is always a good place to start. Creamy, garlicky pasta is an even better place to start! I'm quite a fan of mushrooms. They are so quick and easy to cook and there are so many tasty types to try- Button, Chestnut, Porcini, Shitake, Oyster, Portabello, even woodland varieties. The best thing about mushrooms for me though is how perfectly they are complemented by garlic. They just belong together! This recipe for Garlic Mushroom Linguine ticks so many boxes for me. It's quick and there's very little prep and absolutely no fancy cooking skills, so it's super easy as well. I prefer to make it with a few different varieties of mushroom for more flavour and texture, but if...

Chicken and Sweetcorn Pasta Bake- a filling, comforting, cheesy pasta bake with chicken and sweetcorn. Jump to recipe Well, well, well! It's snowing here, and not just an ickle bit of snow dusting the pavement. It's a full on deluge (well, by British standards anyway) of 12+ cms! It's seems timely then (and almost like I planned it) that I am posting a lovely, warm, comforting pasta bake recipe today. A good pasta bake is just the thing on a cold winter's day. It's n easy, child-friendly meal that's pretty low cost and it can be made in bulk- all persuasive arguments for having several yummy pasta bake recipes up your sleeve. These are two that I really love at the moment: Bolognese Bake (my favourite!) Macaroni Cheese with Bacon This recipe for chicken and sweetcorn pasta bake is essentially a chicken twist on tuna pasta bake. P asta, chicken and sweetcorn smothered in c heesy, creamy sauce. It's great for using up leftover roast chicken. If you don't...

Creamy Salmon Pasta- penne pasta in a warm pasta salad with salmon, peppers and peas, mixed with fat free yogurt to keep the calories down. Syn free on Slimming World if you use spray oil. Jump to recipe So the summer holidays are nearly over, it's not long until we are back to school, and it's definitely time for me to get back on the MyFitnessPal wagon! To try and get things started with a bang, I wanted to make something new. I served up this Creamy Salmon Pasta dish, which is also syn free on Slimming World, and comes in at around 600 calories (less if you're not as big of a pasta monster as I am!) The creamy sauce is achieved with fat-free Greek yoghurt, which gives it a really nice tang. I personally like the Liberte brand because I find it thicker and creamier than others, but any plain, fat-free yoghurt would work. Mixed together with stock, veg, salmon and your favourite type of pasta, it makes a quick and delicious dinner. I could easily have eaten a second bowl,...

Bolognese Bake- a warm and comforting pasta bake, perfect for family meals, pasta mixed with bolognese and topped with cheese. Syn-free on Slimming World if you make the cheese your Hex A with reduced fat cheddar. Jump to recipe You'd think that now we're in the summer holidays, I would have all this spare time for making fancy, elaborate dinners. Doesn't seem to quite work out that way somehow! This bolognese bake fitted the bill of a comforting pasta meal on a rather cool summer evening last week, with plenty of leftovers for lunch the next day. Pasta, mixed together with a rich, meaty bolognese sauce and topped with grated mature cheese, makes a very tasty dinner. I find that mature cheese is essential to really complement the flavour of the bolognese. It makes a delicious meal, especially when served with a salad and some garlic bread. Just look at the cheese when it's all melted and crispy around the edges! I tend to keep my bolognese sauce fairly simple and reas...

Bacon Spaghetti Bake- a comforting family meal. Spaghetti baked in a tomato sauce with bacon and topped off with cheese. Jump to recipe Tonight for dinner we had Bacon Spaghetti Bake, which was yummy but not what we were originally hoping to have... The weather ended our BBQ hopes pretty quickly! So, at short notice, the only thing in the freezer that would defrost in time was bacon. I wanted a quick, easy dinner, because I had planned not be slaving in the kitchen! So I made Bacon Spaghetti Bake. It's simple and delicious, plus all you need is red pepper, garlic, onion, tomatoes, bacon, spaghetti and some cheese and away you go. If you don't have spaghetti, any other pasta would work, and if you are veggie, skip the bacon and add extra veg like mushrooms and it will be just as delicious. Add a little side salad and you've got yourself a yummy dinner in less than 45 minutes. Bacon Spaghetti Bake makes great leftovers for lunch. In fact, I think it was even nicer the next d...

Tuna Crunch Pasta Salad- a twist on the classic tuna mayo with sweetcorn. Chopped fresh peppers and spring onion add some crunch to this summer recipe. It makes a quick and easy lunch and is Slimming World Friendly. Jump to Recipe Pasta salads get quite a bad rap at times- gloopy, bland and so on, but I love them, especially in summer. It took me a few years to realise how much I loved them though, due to bad experiences at school. This was because there were often pasta salads served in the summer and they were truly revolting; very sweet and always tasted the same, no matter what the ingredients were. I found out later that they had been making the pasta salads with salad cream... I know, the very idea is revolting. Can't believe I ever managed to eat it! Pasta salads can be absolutely delicious, if you get the balance right (and don't use salad cream!) Given that pasta is soft, it works best if you balance that with some other firmer textures. For this pasta salad, I wanted ...

As it's summer, you'd think I would be putting the slow cooker away. Nope, still using it for new recipes. This week it's Slow Cooker Italian Chicken Pasta Sauce, which is a bit more summery than a stew, I guess! Essentially, this was a twist on my Very Garlicky Slow Cooker Lemon and Rosemary Chicken (longest recipe name ever!). You can find the original recipe here: Very Garlicky Slow Cooker Lemon and Rosemary Chicken Recipe I highly recommend it. It's useful for so many things! I'm obsessed with it, using it in salads, sandwiches, jacket potatoes and so on. But back to this pasta sauce recipe. It's a simple slow cooked pasta sauce recipe with shredded chicken, garlic and rosemary in a pasta sauce. Spoon it over some pasta, sprinkle it with a bit a cheese and you've got a delicious lunch or dinner. If you're going for the Full Monty, serve with garlic bread and a side salad. It's great for making ahead in a big batch and freezing. If you are goin...

Garlic and Lemon Linguine with Chargrilled Chicken- a very simple pasta dish of linguine and mushrooms in garlic and lemon oil, with added flavour from the chargrilled chicken. Dinner ready in 25 minutes. Jump to recipe When we were on holiday in Canada, we went to a restaurant called The Spaghetti Factory a couple of times. It specialises in different pasta dishes and serves them up with a free salad or soup and garlic bread. Delicious! One dish that we had there was a garlic linguine with chicken. I really enjoyed it- there was a real kick of garlic in the linguine. At the time, I said straight away that I was going to try and make something similar at home. This garlic and lemon linguine with chargrilled chicken is my attempt to do just that. It's different to what we ate in Canada, but has similar flavours. Lemon and garlic give the linguine and mushrooms a ton of sharp flavour to contrast against the caramelisation on the chicken. It's very garlicky, so you might want to ...

Every Sunday, my husband and I look through the following week's plans to see how many nights we need a quick dinner due to late meetings and things like that. We usually have a few slow cooker meals ready in the freezer, but it's handy to have a bank of quick-to-make dinners too. A favourite quick dinner of ours is Spicy Chicken Pasta. It only has a few ingredients and is great for using up left over chicken. If I get in late, it's great to be able to walk into the kitchen and knock something tasty like this up, in about 20 minutes. It's essentially a tomato, garlic and onion-based pasta sauce, with a good hit of chilli and some red pepper thrown in too. It has a lot of flavour and can be thrown together very quickly. It's a great way to use up left over roast chicken too, if you have any. If you're doing Slimming World, switch the oil for a low cal oil spray and switch the harissa paste for powder to keep it "syn" free.