This recipe for pasta with pumpkin, spinach and thyme sauce takes barely 30 minutes to prepare and is surprisingly delicious for something that is so easy to cook with relatively few ingredients. Ideal for when you need to pull something impressive together with little time on your hands.

This recipe for Sicilian casarecce with caper and anchovy tomato sauce is simplicity itself with few ingredients, healthy and delicious. All it takes is a little time to cook down to perfection. It's from one of my father's journals of recipes he collected on his travels in the 1960s and 1970s.

Apulian pasta with tomato sauce and 'nduja. The other lead flavours in the sauce include capers, black olives and red peppers.

spaghetti con tonno, literally spaghetti with tuna, is a quick and easy dish with a spicy pepper twist