Because I’ve been eating pasta for the pasta few days…

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These are three pasta dishes to make in a hurry! Remember to always add a pinch of salt to your pasta when boiling – it makes it taste better and cooks quicker. I use Barilla pasta because its the best gluten free…in my opinion anyways!

Dish 1…aka The Papster:

This is a dish that my dad used to cook for us and to this day it is one of my favourites!! Simple yet so flavoursome!

Ingredients:

1. Pasta

2. Tuna in sunflower oil

3. Peppers

Cook the pasta. Slice your peppers long and thin and fry in olive oil. Drain the sunflower oil from the tuna then add to the peppers and fry up – this will give it a crispier taste but make sure you don’t burn it. Fry for around 10 minutes.

Dish 2…aka The One for when you have a cold

This is a great dish for trying to banish those horrid winter colds. Think garlic and chilli!

Ingredients:

1. Pasta

2. Garlic

3. Whole Red Chillis

4. Asparagus

5. Parmesan

6. Small Yellow Tomatoes

Cook the pasta. Chop your garlic into small chunks and squash a little to get the flavour out. Fry this in a little olive oil alongside chopped up asparagus heads and whole yellow tomatoes (I do this cos I find they are tastier whole but if you prefer you can cut them up). Fry for around 5 mins. Chop some chilli and add at the very end only frying for 1/2 mins. Add parmesan once served.

Dish 3….aka Meatball Madness 

This is a dish which can be served with spaghetti or used as a centre for lasagna instead of normal mince.

Ingredients:

1. Pasta

2. Minced Meat

3. Garlic

4. Basil

5. Chopped Tomato

6. Tomato Puree

7. Oregano

8. Mozarella

9. GF breadcrumbs

10. Parmesan

Place the minced meat, a small handful of breadcrumbs, a pinch of basil torn up into bits, finely chopped garlic pieces (or I prefer bigger bits when I have a cold) and a pinch of parmesan into a bowl and mix together with your hands until the breadcrumbs and parmesan are evenly spread. Form these into balls and fry with olive oil until cooked all the way through. While these are frying I gently simmer chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, oregano and chopped basil in a saucepan. Once the chopped tomatoes are gently boiling and the meatballs are cooked through I add these in together, place into a glass dish and put into the oven on Gas Mark 5 for 10 mins with a sprinkle of mozzarella atop.