In a small bowl, mix the butter, garlic, parsley and Parmesan together ... stirring a few times. While the pasta is cooking, add a small ladleful of pasta water to the tomato sauce.
Pesto is not, as many think, the Italian for ‘paste’. It means to pound, grind or crush, from the Genoese pesta(re), and refers to the method of making the pesto, as we today call the sauce known by ...
500g/1lb 2oz fusilli lunghi or other pasta of your choice: 500g/1lb 2oz fusilli lunghi or other pasta of your choice salt , to taste : salt, to taste 250g/9oz cherry tomatoes : 250g/9oz cherry ...