Simple food...

This is an example of how one can cook a delicious meal without too much preparation:

1) Make a pasta Napoletana.
2) Add your favourite meat or vegetable. In this case, I added meatballs.

That’s it. Really.

Just use a bit of imagination.

Serves 6

Ingredients:

• 500g of your favourite pasta

See Napoletana Sauce for details, but here’s my quick version:

• 400g of diced tomatoes
• 700g of Tomato Passata
• 2-3 cloves garlic, crushed
• Chilli flakes to taste
• 12 brown large anchovies (replaces the salt)
• freshly ground pepper to taste
• extra virgin olive oil - enough to cover base of pan generously
• fresh basil
• 50ml of red wine
• Parmigiano-Reggiano

The meatballs:

• 10 beef rissoles (about 950g)

I can cook pasta, I didn’t say I can make meatballs. Since the local butcher sells some beef rissoles which are very nice, so I decided to get them and “re-provision” them. I bought 10 big balls of rissoles and cut each into half and re-balled them to become 20 big meat balls.