Our daughter, Clauie, always comes up with this great pasta dish, whenever we ask her to cook something! It's quite easy and one can prepare it at a blink. It is very versatile in the sense that, you can add anything to it as you are cooking the sauce…. be it sliced black olives or anchovies or mushrooms, or zucchini or any combination for that matter. Have fun while you are doing this. Concoct your own version of a sauce. This is just your basic recipe. Who knows, you might just come up with one dream of a sauce!!!

CLAUIE'S PASTA POMODORO

1 big can whole tomatoes (or ¾ kilo blanched and peeled tomatoes)
1 head garlic (macerated)
2 medium heads red onions (chopped fine)
1 head garlic (sliced crosswise)
1 Knorr beef cube
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
Salt & pepper (to taste)
6 pieces sun-dried tomatoes (cut into slivers) OPTIONAL INGREDIENT
1 pack Tita Layette's home-made fettucini noodles (K-Mart)

PROCEDURE:
- Heat up olive oil in a medium “cacerola”. Add macerated garlic only and onions. Stir gently until onions turn translucent.

- Add Italian seasoning, Knorr cube, and whole tomatoes with the juice. As it starts to simmer, cut up tomatoes with kitchen shears into chunky pieces, right there in your “cacerola”.

- Simmer gently over low fire for about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add the slivers of sun-dried tomatoes and your sliced garlic. Then you can now, turn off your fire, drizzle some more olive oil, cover and set aside.

- Boil your pasta, following the cooking directions. Make sure that the pasta is cooked only “al dente” INDI TAM-AN KA LATA!!! As soon as you drain off pasta in a colander, incorporate quickly into your pomodoro sauce. Serve with Parmesan cheese on the side.

TIPS:

- - Handle pasta with 2 wooden spoons, to avoid tearing to pieces.

- - Any brand of pasta will do.

- - As your sauce starts to simmer, please DO NOT cover.

- - This dish is just great with crusty French bread

Enjoy Clauie's Pasta Pomodoro and a big hug from the Red Hot Mama!.