There is a very large variety of pasta around the world. They differ firstly in their composition, often made from durum wheat semolina in Europe or from soft wheat or rice flour in Asia. Some pasta is made from whole wheat. We then distinguish between fresh pasta and dry pasta. And the forms of pasta: spaghetti, noodles, macaroni, lasagne, penne, tagliatelle, farfalle... Pasta is usually cooked in a large volume of boiling salted water. It can also be cooked in a sauce, as the Italians do.
According to lifestyle and happiness guru Gretchen Rubin, you ‘bring your own weather to a picnic’. Ms Rubin, I’d suggest, has never shivered under a tree watching raindrops turn her fish-paste sandwich to mush because the weather forecast was wrong. There are, it’s safe to say, picnics and Picnics. It’s a term that takes in everything from a rubber baguette in a French ‘Aire’ off the Autoroute du Soleil to a four-course spread while listening to opera at Glyndebourne. What’s definitely true is ...
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With culinary inspiration dating back to 1935, our restaurant brand Madhu’s specialises in South Asian cuisine with an East African influence. It’s thanks to the secret recipes handed down across eight decades that we have become caterers for royalty, dignitaries and Asian weddings – and that our original Southall location has been named Best Indian Restaurant multiple times by Pat Chapman’s Cobra Good Curry Guide. Over the past few years I’ve been working on creative combinations to find the pe ...
