Melbourne is quite literally cooking this week and we have another day of 44°C forecast for today.
I love my salads on days like these, like this beautiful chicken salad or this zingy soba noodle salad but I am more than aware that my kids don’t always crave what I crave and sometimes they just want a big bowl of pasta after a days swimming and trying to keep cool.
This Pasta Amatriciana recipe is a family favourite and it doesn’t require turning the oven on and making the house any hotter than it needs to be in 44°C heat.
Yesterday at Relish Mama, I had the privilege of teaching 30 children throughout the day the joys of cooking with summers bounty. We had such a fun day together and this was one of the recipes I shared and that we all cooked together in class.
When I returned home in the evening to my own beautiful family, I quickly whipped up this same dish for them, served it on a big platter and enjoyed it together with the slight cool breeze and a great (but long! ) game of Cluedo.
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