But one recipe I do make in advance is homemade spaghetti sauce. It makes cooking throughout the week easier—because it’s good for a lot more than just spaghetti. Think of it as a quiet luxury.

It is the perfect thing to make when you have few ingredients on hand but feel like making something special. Flour, eggs, ...

MIKE: So we are making the pasta for a signature dish ... microscopic pieces that are going to melt into the sauce and thicken it up and make it super velvety, but this is not for the faint ...

With just a rolling pin and two ingredients you can make your own pasta from scratch! To keep things simple it's served with a fresh 3-ingredient tomato sauce. Put the flour and a pinch of salt ...

Step 2 Make a well in the centre of the flour. Step 4 Pour eggs into well in flour, and combine with flour, working from the centre outwards. Step 5 When flour and eggs are combined, knead for ...