#can you tell the fallback foundational food in my house growin go up was pasta?

[hiramsbottle]

Spicy bacon pasta (alt remove the spicy)

Bacon, onion, canned tomato (+tomato paste), pasta (garlic peppers)

salt, pepper, oregano, dried chili/fresh chili/cayenne

Cook up bacon and onion with oregano and chili (add peppers and garlic a bit later), (stir in end cook good plop of tomato paste), dump canned tomatoes in, tomatoes need salt, lett simmer a bunch while boil pasta. If it cools down a bunch add some pasta water at the end. Pretty quick, very tasty, could easily eat on toast or something if you don’t have pasta.

Simple veggie pasta.

Garlic, onion, carrot, peppers, tomato

Oregano, salt, pepper, (chili, basil)

Base of onions, garlic, pepper, carrots. Cook with salt and oregano (chili) until a bit soft and smelling nice. (Plop in some tomato paste mix around and simmer in olive oil a bit). Add tomatoes and salt, cook a bunch until tastes nice while cooking pasta.

Variations: add extra carrot and blend it at the end, throw in some eggplant or zucchini ect, would be good with chicken, some spinach leaves,

Decent base for a ricotta spinach lasagna

A bit of hard cheese like Parmesan or grand padano is extra tasty sprinkled on top, but don’t be restrictive! Got some feta? Throw it on! Taste it first, but a lot of cheeses of other salty/crumbly/funky toppings will nicely compliment the sauce!

Learning to make a decent tomato sauce you think is tasty is great because it’s really easy to keep your kitchen stocked with extra canned tomatoes and tomato paste. Add some garlic and/or onion and you can probably make something tasty with what else you have around.

Dried/canned lentils/legumes/beans throw in some broth/water and what ever veggies you can dig up and you’ve got a semi-decent filling soup

With the right spice combo you can cook up almost any meat in a tasty tomato sauce, or as a side sauce.

Got some hardy greens? Throw some tasty sauce on them (or throw them in sauce) enjoy away.

Got some eggs? Get your sauce simmering, make some cozy egg indents/bowls, crack eggs in, turn down, put the lot of and let them poach/steam. Eat with toast or rice or greens or pasta, plop of some potato. (—> look up shakshuka recipes, very tasty) this can be done with any spice/flavor profile you’ve got available

Potatoes can be great cooked in tomato sauce, good with extra onions, great with some meat thrown in. Might be decent with egg thrown in at the end?

Great additives to pump up the flavor other than spices: balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, fish sauce, wine, other vinegars, sugar (some canned tomatoes really need a bit of this), bullion (just crumple in some broth powder or concentrate)

The big thing here is learning to make it so you like it, the point isn’t to make a specific dish, but a basis for your own day to day food!

Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner