Pumpkin Pasta with Crispy Chickpeas and Shiitake Bacon
I was so honoured to cook this recipe recently in front of my first live audience, at Castle Towers Shopping Centre, at a pop-up kitchen for their new Cooking School. What a strange feeling it was in the lead up. To be so happy with a recipe yourself, and to eat it regularly. Would people like it? Would they baulk at the idea of there being no meat? Would I forget everything I wanted to say and stare blankly at them all red-faced? All of the uncertainties about myself and my
