If you grew up in an Italian household, you will definitely have been faced with eating pasta fagioli at least once (if not more)! I have to admit, pasta e fagioli (pasta with beans) hasn’t really been a dish that has been present in my marriage meals with Steven. But, it does feature in March, so it was time I made it… And after the scrumptious dinner, I began to wonder why I hadn’t experimented with it previously? It is so yummy and such a great winter warmer! And not too hard either!

Pasta e fagioli (page 76)

Of course, I used dried beans soaked in water overnight. I cooked the beans the day before I actually made the pasta e fagioli. Reason being, was that I needed to work the next day. To anyone who wants to be organised – you can cook a whole heap of dried beans…