Recipe November! Peppadew Bacon Fusilli

Peppadews are a tasty South African variety of piquante pepper which you can buy in a jar. Substitute any other peppers you like, but if they're raw fry them along with the mushrooms. I hold that fusilli is the best pasta shape cos it can't stick together as it cooks.

100g mushrooms, sliced
2 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
10g butter
1 crushed or chopped clove of garlic
4 or 5 peppadew peppers from a jar, sliced
100g fusilli
100g spinach, washed

The sauce takes about as long to cook as the pasta does, so get the pasta boiling first, then fry the bacon, mushrooms and garlic in the butter. When they're done, add the peppers and the spinach and put a lid on the saucepan so the spinach steams. Toss the lot together with the cooked pasta and eat it. Serves 1 if she ran home from work and got in STARVIN'UNGRY. Total distance run in training so far: 99 miles, or London to nearly Grantham up the East Coast Main Line.