Yummy pasta carbonara tonight. G asked for pasta and I hadn’t made carbonara in a while. Always a winner.

While I didn’t really follow a recipe, I did something like:

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/gennaro-s-classic-spaghetti-carbonara/

(omg the web is still terrible, so many carbonara recipes with cream - it surely must taste so heavy and terrible?)

I used Gigli (L tells me it is Italian for Lily), something like:

In my never ending quest to get dark green veg into G I added shredded spinach and a finely chopped onion, so your Italian Nonna would probably not approve. Luckily L & G did (and I love the classic simple Italian, no cream, no tomato, few ingredient pastas, for all my added ingredients here).

As an aside, I used Chestnut Maran eggs. Apart from a much darker brown shell, they had a fantastic golden coloured yolk to them- it really became quick a bright distinctive part of the egg mixture for the carbonara, and I think left a bit more of a sheen on the pasta. I really liked it (although I’m not sure it actually tasted any different!).