One thing I love about Mr Hungry Australian is that he’s a great cook.
When we first started dating he was working as a consultant. So some days he’d be super-busy and other days I’d go over to his house to find he’d made oven baked lamb shanks with gremolata and mashed potatoes for a workday dinner. The way to my heart is definitely through my stomach so his talent and passion for cooking won him lots of points.
Mr Hungry Australian cooks so differently to me, too. I like the fact that he puts things together in ways that would never occur to me. Take his baby octopus with warm silverbeet and chickpea salad for instance.Or his brilliant Chinese sausage and spinach pizza.
He can also cook dishes that I have never learned to make, like fresh pasta. So nowadays we have a pasta routine: he makes the pasta and I cook the sauce, which is exactly what we’ve done for this recipe below.
As our five year old daughter would say: teamwork gets the job done.
