Sardine Spaghetti
In the normal run of things, I always know what I’m going to have for lunch or dinner. I care far too much about what I eat to feel comfortable just leaving it to chance. But there are inevitably those days when I run out of time or energy and find myself, as mealtime approaches, growling with hunger, and more in need than ever of the transporting power of good food. This is where my Sardine Spaghetti comes in: it’s an invaluable store-cupboard standby that can always be relied upon to do the trick, and pretty much instantly and effortlessly. If I’m having sardines on toast, I always go for a tin of sardines in olive oil and lemon; here, it’s sardines in tomato sauce that are needed. I advise you, however, to avoid the ones that are labelled as “spicy tomato sauce”. That may sound illogical given that the dried chilli flakes I add certainly make this dish pack a punch, but in all my testing (with a number of brands) I have found the taste of the tinned sardines in straightforward tomato sauce infinitely superior to the ones labelled as sold as spicy!
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