RECIPE NOTE: This is how you feed a crowd. It’s also the dish I turn to most when I just need to get dinner done. When people are hungry, and ‘being fed’ is the order of the day, you’ll have this on the table in the time it takes to cook the pasta.
Dinner is hard. It’s daily. No one ever offers to stir away that responsibility: pop it in the oven and pass you a wine. But through it all I have always, always believed that food, however it comes, is what binds us. That we need to do what we can to sit together, no matter how briefly, to share a meal. And the key is in your condiments. Those bits normally housed in the back of your cookbooks are where flavour and convenience collide. That finishing touch – the sauce, relish or sprinkling of spice – will bring a dish home. It’s the