Beef Rib Ragu with fresh pasta


This is my favourite “red” meat pasta sauce (if you must know I’m partial to a creamy vodka tomato sauce too but let’s not digress). The rich rib meat, that is meat between the bones, is loaded with connective tissue that will gelatinise when slow-cooked. It turns into this most flavourful and succulent roast and…

Squid Ink Garganelli in a Vodka Tomato Creamy Sauce


A throw-together lunch, started cooking at 2.18pm, plated at 2.32pm. Shot at 2.38pm, ate at 2.50pm. It doesn’t get any faster than this!! I first tried vodka tomato cream sauce in a Te Anau restaurant, many many years ago. I remember it was the first time I was hit with this obsession to learn how…