Marie Cookpad

  When it comes to pasta, its all about the sauce for me.  I could eat a good pasta sauce by the spoonful.  If your sauce is lacking in substance and flavour, your whole dish is lacking as far as I am concerned.    The sauce I am sharing with you today is one of my favourite sauces.  It is totally low maintenance.  It basically cooks itself.  All you need to do is to dump a few ingredients into a baking dish and then let the oven do all the work.  The only work basically that you will need to do is to cook the pasta and for this sauce I recommend something with long strands that the sauce can cling to. Today I used Bucatini.  Bucatini is kind of like macaroni. It has a hole in the centre just like macaroni, but its long like spaghetti.  It goes perfectly with this lush sauce.  I adapted the recipe from one found in Bon Appetit .   Of course when tomatoes are the main focus of a sauce, you want to make sure you use really g...

   We certainly are living in interesting times.   A tad bit scary, but its all pretty much out of our control. So long as we are washing our hands frequently, not touching our faces and isolating or practicing safe social distancing, we should be safe. We have been self isolating for about a week and a half now, which means that we are not leaving the house and we are relying on our food storage for the most part when it comes to cooking and eating.   The recipe I am sharing with you today is the perfect store cupboard recipe and proof positive that you don't really need a lot of fancy ingredients to provide a delicious meal for your family.   In fact this dish only really requires 4 ingredients.  A jar of some really good Italian peeled tomatoes.  A package of pasta. Some butter and an onion.  You might also want some grated Parmesan cheese to sprinkle on top of the finished dish.  This is so, so, so simple and I have to tell you ...