I asked for my aunt's advice on what to make for my own birthday dinner next weekend, and she pulled out a well - loved Marcella Hazan cookbook to show me the lasagna
con verdure (vegetable lasagna) recipe that's always a people - pleaser.
Veggies, meanwhile, can tuck into Zucca
con Verdure Arrostite: roasted butternut squash and vegetables with pine nuts and goat's cheese; Pasta e Fagioli: a traditional northern Italian soup of pasta, borlotti beans and tomatoes; and mushroom risotto with chilli and truffle oil.