And then a recipe for pasta lovers

We cooked two types of soups by now. I hope you liked the tomato soup as we go ahead and based on that recipe we can create our very first pasta meal.

Spaghetti in tomato sauce

Do you  remember how we made the tomato soup? Let's get through again.

Have a saucepan or any pot, put tomato juice. Add salt, sugar, pepper and boil it. This is it.

Now we have a trick: we add garlic and basil. The garlic should be peeled and cleaned and pressed. Or you can use dry one (powder) from the supermarket. It is not thick at all, right? Well, put some flour. Slowly, carefully. Reduce the heat, so the flour does not burn. We are done with the sauce. Add some more fresh basil.

How to save some time? 

Before doing anything at all, get your pot ready for the pasta. Put water to boil and add salt and oil. The water should really be much more than the pasta amount, so when the pasta grows it still have space to develop and will not stick together. The oil will help that too. When the water boils, add the pasta. It is hard to measure how much you will eat, so how much you would need to cook. Try with some and let's see. If it is not enough, you still have the pot to cook some more. Normally, there are guidelines on the pack. Read them. When you think that the pasta is ready pour the water to the sink. 

Safety instructions:

• Be careful with the heat and steam. You can open the tap to add cold water to the sink
• Remove everything from the sink, specially the glass
• Wear heat-resistant gloves
• If the pot full of water and pasta is too heavy, do not lift it alone. Ask for help or hold it up to the sink and just slightly, slowly make it tilt aside.
• Always use the colander and never the lid, no matter how experienced you are. It can slip and the water burns you. Of course the pasta is gone then. 

You can be naughty a bit and add cheese. What do you think? Isn't it just easy?!

Notes:

If you cook for babies

• choose different, smaller pasta which fits to their small fork or finger better. 
• use birch sugar.
• add less salt.
• use extra virgin oil instead of any regular one.
• they can eat cheese, but not too much a week. If your little one had cheese in the past couple of weeks, skip it now. If he is 10+ months old, go ahead and enjoy the cheesy pasta. :)