Quick and Easy Peasy Spagetti

I love these sort of dinners, they are quick no fuss, the boys love them and best of all they use up all those bits and pieces that you have in the fridge and cupboard. I often make various combinations of this spagetti dish depending on whats in the fridge.

Tonight i had some left over ham (could use bacon or proscuitto), salami, tomotatoes and frozen peas. In the past i have thrown in mushrooms, olives, baby spinach, bit of cooken chiken, tin of tomatoes, prawns. The key to this dish is lots of garlic, i am talking 4-5 cloves finely chopped. If you have it parmazen cheese at the end sets it all off but i only had normal cheese today.

Thought i would take some photos as i go so you can see how easy this is.

1. Cook some spagetti :) (you dont need a photo of that do you ?)


2. Put the ham and salami in the frypan leave it to cook and brown and crisp up a bit.








3. Throw in the tomatoes, garlic and whatever else you like leave that to cook a bit. A good idea whenever having tomatoes like this is to put it a bit of sugar, say maybe around a tablespoon or so i dont measure i just chuck it in :)

4. Add the frozen peas. The frozen peas add a bit of water so makes a slight sauce, let cook just for a couple of mins.

Variation is to add in a tin of tomatoes just prior to this step so its more saucey if you like it that way, but takes a bit longer cooking time as you need that sauce to cook down a bit.




5. Next add in the cooked spagetti, use some tongs mix it all together, if its a bit dry use a bit of olive oil (extra virgin if you have it) cook for a min or so more and then serve it up. If you add in baby spinach just add it in here it will cook with the heat of the spagetti.








You can see my bowl in the top photo has a big dollop of chilli in it. mmmmmmm .
This is also why i love this dish, its easy for me "adulterise it" (if that is even a word) for me and I dont have to cook separately for the boys who wont eat chilli obviously.


As i said above paramazen would have been perfect here but i didnt have any, still tasted good without it.

5.0 ate 3 bowls of it, so i think it was a winner :) I good one for the whole family.