Spaghetti Carbonara

This is my favourite – along with all my other favourites. I love the buttery, eggy creaminess of the sauce, saltily-spiked with hot-cubed pancetta: it’s comforting, but not in a sofa-bound kind of way. It feels like proper dinner, only it takes hardly any time to cook. This is my most regular dinner for two: I keep, at all times, the wherewithal to make it in the house. You can add double cream to the egg-and-cheese mixture if you want – a couple of tablespoons, but then use 2 yolks only,