Growing up, I was pasta obsessed. My order of choice at every restaurant no matter what country we were holidaying in was carbonara, I’d eat plain penne with ketchup as an after school snack and every Monday would look forward to my dad’s famous bolognese which he still makes on Monday’s to this day.

I had a brief but devastating split from pasta during my ballet days at 18 and again during a trial and error gluten free stage in my mid twenties but am happy to say pasta is a huge part of my life again and gone are the carbonara and bolognese days. I feel like there’s a bit of pretentious posh pasta scene at the moment and I’m an unashamed member. The bowl of spaghetti emoji is one of my most used.

I spent my 28th birthday at Bancone in Covent Garden eating silk handkerchiefs, walnut butter & confit egg yolk pasta and am a regular subscriber to Pasta Evangelists where boxes of black truffle & burrata ravioli get posted through my letter box for a Friday date night in. My fiancé and I even did a fresh pasta making online workshop during the last lockdown.

Below are 3 pasta recipes that are not created by myself but are regulars on my weekly menu. I just couldn’t keep them to myself and if you stumbled across this journal piece then here is the gift of 3 mouth-watering pasta recipes you’ll make again and again.

An Anna Jone’s one pan lemon pasta that is so easy, you’ll be tempted to have it every night of the week.

A fancier vodka pasta that I’d be wanting to try for ages and am now never going back, vodka in pasta sauce is something you’ll be telling everyone about if you haven’t already. I swap out the double cream in this recipe for the oatly single cream which creates a lighter and more enjoyable dish for me.

And finally another alcohol induced option, I promise I’m not trying to get you drunk, Jamie Oliver’s rosé pesto pasta. Remember that the alcohol burns off and you only use about about 1 unit per 4 people- although then you have the rest of the bottle to drink as you please. I also sometimes make this one without the prawns so all the recipes are vegetarian friendly.

However, I do believe the one reason I am not vegan is because parmesan on pasta is one of my favourite things in life. Sometimes the only thing you’ll find in our fridge is a wedge of parmesan.

Anna Jone’s Kate, Tomato and Lemon One Pot Spaghetti

Jon & Vinny’s Fusilli alla Vodka with Basil and Parmesan

Jamie Oliver’s Rosé Pesto Prawn Pasta