Pasta with Mushroom Sauce

This rather eccentric recipe can be a good standby for lunch on one of those days when, expecting sunshine all day, you see nothing but grey skies thanks to the Marin – the muggy wind that brings clouds up from the sea to cover the plains between Béziers and Carcassonne. It can be made with boutons de guêtre (false mousserons), with very small ceps, or with field or button mushrooms. Pasta is a common enough food in Languedoc and I love this version – mushroom pasta with fried