Get a big pot of salted water on to boil for the pasta. Add your pasta to the pot and get on with the rest of this as it will be ready by the time your pasta is al dente.

I use a large saute pan for this but any decent sized saucepan is fine. Gently fry your finely chopped onion until it has softened, add minced garlic and anything else you might like at this stage, I put in some mushrooms I had lying around or you could add some spinach or green beans or whatever, but it’s just fine without. When the mushrooms, onion and garlic are cooked to your satisfaction and the pasta is nearly done, crumble the blue cheese into the saucepan. How much you use is up to you. Different blue cheeses have different strengths. The cheap one I used was fairly mild so I used quite a lot to get that blue cheese flavour throughout the dish, you might need a little less of some of the more stinky, expensive blue cheeses. Stir the cheese in until it melts down and then add the creamy substance of your choice and season with salt and pepper. Go easy with the salt as the cheese already adds a lot of saltiness.