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METHOD

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Pasta Farfalle with a creamy sauce of bacon, peas, sage and parmesan cheese

INGREDIENTS (Serves 4)

• 400 grams dried farfalle
• olive oil
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 glove of garlic, finely chopped
• 150 grams diced bacon
• 300 ml heavy cream
• 150 grams peas
• 60 grams grated parmesan cheese
• handful of freshly chopped parsley and sage

METHOD

Boil up a pan of water with a bit of salt added and cook the farfalle pasta according to the instructions on the package.

Heat up a frying pan and add a splash of olive oil. Add the bacon and cook for 3-4 minutes on big flame until nice and browned. Then add the onions and chopped garlic. Cook until the onions are softened.

Add the cream to the mix, bring it up to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes until slightly thickened.

Add the peas to the creamy mixture and simmer again for another 3-4 minutes.

Add the grated parmesan cheese and stir it into the sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste.

The pasta should be about ready by now. Drain it off add it to the sauce. Add the herbs and mix it up nicely so the pasta gets a good coating.

Serve with a bit of remaining parmesan and herbs sprinkled on top.

Based on a recipe of Gordon Ramsay.

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When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

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• 250g good-quality semi-cured whole chorizo
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon runny honey

METHOD

Slice the chorizo into 2cm rounds. Put into the small frying pan with a splash of olive oil and toss occasionally until golden and crisp.