Cooking dinner for one is a pretty lonesome activity. It means you definitely can't go to town and for me almost definitely means no meat. I decided to use the good penne I had bought at the Deli in Aldeburgh a few weeks ago. Always when you make a pasta dish for one, no matter how careful you portion it, you inevitably make too much, tell yourself you’ll have the rest for lunch tomorrow and then eat it around 27 minutes later.
Which is why I decided to tuck into the penne. I still had some smoked salmon left so decided to make a Carbonara. I used 1 egg, a big splash of cream, a handful of parmesan and pepper for the sauce part of the dish. That all gets stirred in at the end of cooking, when the pasta is off the heat (so the eggs don’t scramble) and while it still retains a small part of cooking water. Courgette was fried with thyme and the smoked salmon got torn and stirred in when the sauce was coming together.
7 minutes after finishing I returned for the second half.
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