“The ingredients of success are to treat your business like it has a soul, be loyal to your staff, be efficient, be passionate and don’t change your menu too much. This is a simple dish with few ingredients, but timing is crucial – serve the clams immediately.” — Chris Rupe

Welcome to our pasta party in a cake tin! (Or frying pan, if you prefer… we did). This is SO easy to whip up and makes a change from the usual pasta dinner. Plus, it’s a bit of a blank slate: you can throw some sun-dried tomatoes, chopped olives, chopped salami, capers, anchovies or fresh basil through the mixture before baking...

Oops. We’ve been doing pesto ALL WRONG. Well, pretty much wrong. We just heave all the ingredients into a food processor, blitz the hell out of them, then presto! Pesto!…