We're trying to cook something new each week. This week We've cooked a couple of things from the You Magazine. Tonights was fish in a puttanesca style sauce. I didn't follow the recipe very closely but I produced something in the same spirit. We didn't have any anchovies (nor anchovy sauce - our crappy local Asda didn't sell any last time we were there) but since the published recipe didn't call for them, that was ok

I fried an onion, some sliced leek, garlic, chilli, then threw in half a carton of passata and a couple of tablespoons of capers. The magazine recipe then had the stuff in a pot in the oven but I couldn't be bothered making more washing up so I popped the cod steaks on top of the sauce, put the lid on, and left it for 10 minutes to cook/steam, which I boiled the pasta.

It was pretty good.

Slow cooker Chicken and vegetable soup with those tiny pasta stars in it.

Doyou mean the tiny stars a couple of mm across? I think our local Asda sells tiny pasta stars as part of their kids pasta shapes range. I've seen them in one of the local supermarkets anyway. We try to avoid going into  Asda as much as possible because it's a bit crap...

I wonder whether the stars would make a good substitute for cous-cous. I used to eat quite a lot of that and I'm sure the stars would be a bit like a fun-shaped version of it.