The A to Z of making the perfect pasta dish + a delicious recipe for Penne with a Tuna, Tomato, Olive & Caper Sauce

And a Sicilian wine that will “wow” your palate: Rosammare

This week I was a guest on the Cultivated by Caryn Podcast and was asked to chat about Italian food in general and also one of my recipes. Just before we started the recording I made lunch for me and my husband and I thought why not instead talk in generic terms about how to make a great pasta dish? The fact of the matter is there're certain generic things you should do every time you make pasta to make it delicious.

Do you ever make a short pasta - like penne - with tunafish? Tunafish straight out of a jar: a high quality tuna, packed in extra-virgin olive oil. That's one of our favorites, and the recipe will help explain the details of the important universal steps in preparing delicious pasta dishes.