Nigel and Nigella

Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson. Two of my favourite food writers, and also creators of these two fine recipes.
I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve made Nigel’s pasta with spicy sausage. It’s warming, filling, tasty, spicy…in fact it ticks all the yummylicious boxes in my book!
I think Nigel must like the recipe too, because he’s got it in both ‘Real cooking’ and ‘Real food’, both of which are amazing books.
Here are the basic ingredients:

sausages
basil
mustard
wine
chilli flakes

also incuded in the recipe are pasta and double cream. I couldn’t find orrechiette today in Waitrose, so settled for little shell-like shapes called ‘gnocchi’. I’ve used these before with good results.
Here’s the pasta ‘sauce’ – sausages, wine, basil, mustard, chilli flakes and cream before it’s added to the cooked pasta:

and here’s the finished dish:

Here’s the recipe.

My sister-in-law and her daughter are arriving later to stay until next Monday, it’s a long story, one I’ll save for another time, so I thought I’d make some quick muffins to have something home-made and delicious to offer them. I chose Nigella’s pear and ginger muffins, which quickly morphed into apple and cinnamon muffins when I realised there were no pears in the fruit bowl!

The smell of apples and cinnamon filling the kitchen is quite delicious! And here’s the recipe in case you want to try them.

8 comments on “Nigel and Nigella”

Anna, Nigel’s pasta is great isn’t it, we all love it here too.Your muffins look delicious, I could eat one right now.Hope you have a lovely time with your family.Vi xx

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Love the photo of you with Nigella! Lucky thing 🙂 I’ve heard great things about those muffins, must get round to trying them. I’ve ony read one Nigel book (can’t remember what it was called as all his titles blend into one for me) but good grief it made me want something covered in butter, cream and cheese!! Lol.

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Anna, that pasta dish looks amazing! Definitely like something my family would love. Thanks for the recipe.The muffins look great too, I haven’t gotten around to trying them yet.

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Anna I love Nigel’s pasta dish and yours just looks so delicious! Those muffins look good too ;o)Mariax

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I love Nigel Lawson too. I haven’t tried that recipe. It looks lovely. I can nearly smell your apple and cinnamon muffins. Mmmmmmmxxx

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Hi Anna, I adore both Nigella & Nigel they have great taste in food! Just look at your yummy pasta and those muffins DO look so good!!Rosie x

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I have to admit I am not familiar with Niger or Nigella, but looking at your pictures makes me believe they must be good at what they are doing. And your muffins invite me to eat them off the screen right now:)

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