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Katrina Meynink

Katrina Meynink

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Katrina Meynink is a cookbook author and Good Food recipe columnist.Connect via Twitter.

Carbonara you can slurp with a spoon? We’re here for it.
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Soup of the carbonara variety

Traditionalists, look away. This lovely, hearty soup is pasta you can slurp with a spoon.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Green curry and lemongrass soup.

Thai green curry and lemongrass soup

Built around frozen peas, this soup gets a tick for convenience and delivers bags of flavour in very little time.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Taco soup with all the toppings.

Mexican-inspired taco soup

Taco Tuesday meets Soup Night in this hearty Tex-Mex meal with all the toppings.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

Five ways to magic a meal from a can of tomato soup (starring this garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl)

Give a humble, cost-effective can a bit of juju with these ideas from Katrina Meynink.

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Tomato soup, extra dirty.
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Dirty martini tomato ‘n’ olive soup

When you’d like nothing more than an ice-cold martini, but midweek life has other plans, this soup gives hits of salty, briny goodness.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Mexican-inspired soup with all the toppings.

Give taco Tuesday, Thai green curry and carbonara the soup treatment

Katrina Meynink transforms three dinnertime classics − and one cocktail − into fortifying, satisfying soups.

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Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
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Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

Caramelising the sausage meat and coating it in sun-dried tomato pesto is a shortcut to deep flavour in no time.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pasta with slow-roasted shallot, chorizo and garlic sauce.
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Pasta with shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce

Slow-roasted eschalots do ungodly decadent things to anything they lend their flavour to, such as this simple tomato sauce.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
This creamy fennel sauce comes together in a blender.
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Caramelised fennel, lemon and chilli pasta

This decadent, silky sauce comes together in a blender.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Peruvian-inspired green spaghetti with smoked almonds.
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Peruvian-style green spaghetti with spinach, feta and smoked almonds

The influx of Italians in Peru in the early 1800s resulted in this twist on the Ligurian pesto pasta, known as tallarines verdes.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink