Italy has to be my all time favourite destination, but this only happened a year after I got married. Until then, my excursions overseas had not once included Europe. I had been to England, the United States, the Middle East, the Far East and Australia, but never to Europe. My parents decided we needed some culture and sent us on honeymoon to Switzerland and Italy. We spent time in Florence, Rome, Bologna and Milan and I vowed I would go back someday and that I would learn to speak Italian. My Italian is basic and I aim to be fluent by the end of next year. Dave and I went back to Italy in 2010 and spent most of our time in Umbria. I got the experience their markets and as we had a self catering unit for part of our time there, I could cook. It is the smells and sights and tastes of Italy that visit my kitchen the most often, with a regular Tandy Tuesday meal of pasta – cooked the way an Italian would, simply and quickly.
© mushroom and gorgonzola pasta
MUSHROOM AND GORGONZOLA PASTA
ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 rashers bacon, sliced
100g beech mushrooms, sliced
4 tablespoons Gorgonzola
2 tablespoons cream
small handful of flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
method:
while your pasta is cooking heat the olive oil in a pan
cook the bacon until the fat has rendered down
add the mushrooms and allow to cook gently
add the Gorgonzola and the cream and allow the Gorgonzola to melt
add the parsley and toss the pasta through your sauce
I am submitting this recipe to Presto Pasta Nights
Tandy
Mmm all my favourite ingredients together!
thanks Anne! This one is also a favourite of mine
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Trips to Italy… I’m ready for a trip back myself. Pasta like this… I don’t even have to wait. Thanks for sharing with Presto Pasta Nights.
Thanks Ruth, nothing beats a trip to Italy in your own kitchen
looks delicious and so simple!
thank you!
My husband and son are big fans of these types of cheese. I am sure they would love this dish!
it is a firm favourite
This is a beautiful pasta. I’d love to have a bowl for my supper. Come to think of it, I just may have a bowl of it for my supper
. Have a wonderful day. Blessings…Mary
thanks Mary, hope your day is full of blessings as well
am drooling ! but alas its salad for me right now ! too much over-indulgence !
in this weather salad is not a bad option in any case
This has started a craving for gorgonzola now! I’m holding thumbs for your entries to the competition
I love ‘smelly’ cheeses
The Presto Pasta Nights is just a collection of pasta recipes and anyone can submit them. Nice to just ‘reach out’. Have a super day xxx
How wonderful that you have done so much travelling.
Mandy
Does Woolies stock beech mushrooms now?
Pete would love your pasta but sadly I don’t enjoy gorgonzola.
Woolies has all sorts of awesome mushrooms, and I love using them
I suppose you could substitute a milder cheese for the Gorgonzola. I have a serious travel bug and try and go overseas once a year 
I don’t know how I will pace myself when I walk into Woolies when I get home!
leave your credit card at home LOL
This just makes me drool. Maybe we’ll go to Italy together … if I win the Filippo Berio competition, wouldn’t that be something? You, me, Chantelle, Sue, Jan, and who should be the 6th one? I think Sidey
that sounds like the perfect group of people to be together on a foodie exploration of the country I love xxx