Step 1

For those of you who would like a little more substance than a bowl full of heavenly but practically nude pasta, place butter into large shallow frying pan and cook until it reaches noisette stage.

Step 2

Add a handful of fresh sage leaves to crisp in the last few minutes.

Step 3

Cook salmon to taste, for literally 1-2 minutes until crispy on the skin side and still translucent in the centre. Keep it hot in an oven until ready to serve. Remember it will keep cooking.

Step 4

As suggested, this is a made to order kind of dish, so cook the pasta, 1 or 2 sheets at a time, in heaps of salted water whilst you quickly whip up each batch of topping…much more fragrant that way.