[Recipe]

Spicy pasta soup

Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil , plus extra for drizzling

1 red onion , finely chopped

1 red chilli , deseeded and finely sliced

800g tomatoes

1l vegetable stock

100g broken spaghetti

salt

handful of basil leaves, roughly torn

Method

Heat the oil in a large heavy-based saucepan. Add the onion and chilli, then cook for 10 minutes until softened. Stir in the tomatoes, breaking up with a spoon as you go, then pour in the stock. Cover, bring to the boil, remove the lid, then simmer for five minutes.

Add the spaghetti, then simmer for six to eight minutes until it is just cooked and add salt. Stir basil, then serve drizzled with olive oil.

Banana Breakfast loaf

Time: one hour

Ingredients

75g butter , softened

110g sugar

125g flour

100g rice flour

2 tsp baking powder

2 eggs

4 ripe bananas , mashed

50g cashew , each snapped in half

1 lemon , juiced, mixed with 1 tbsp sugar to finish (optional)

Method

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 170C/gas 4. Beat the butter, sugar, flours, baking powder, eggs and banana together. Stir in the nuts and spoon into a lined and buttered 450g loaf tin.

Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. spoon over the lemon sugar, if using.