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• Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with courgette, onion and raw tomato salsa | A kitchen in Rome

  18-07-2026 15:00
  
  Hot summer days call for a pasta dish that’s treated like salad leaves – tossed gently through a fresh, room-temperature sauceIn her encyclopaedic but not at all stuffy book about Neapolitan food, Jeanne Caròla Francesconi provides half a dozen recipes for pasta with raw tomato sauces suitable for hot days. The one I always notice is vermicelli all’insalata, because of the arrangement of the words. Not the familiar insalata di pasta (pasta salad), but all’insalata
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for roasted Greek salad with orzo | Meera Sodha recipes

  18-07-2026 07:00
  Bring the flavours – and heat – of Athens into your kitchen, with this traditional salad baked for an added sweetness and jamminessGreeks, look away now! Those who don’t turn on the oven in the summer months might want to turn the page, too. Personally, I don’t mind putting something in the oven in summer, not least because I enjoy that the oven does the work when I might not want to. I even quite like that cheeky blast of heat when I open the door, imagining briefly that
  
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