 Here I have some rapidly boiling water. You can see all the bubbles coming up And this is the first step to making pasta. The next thing is we're gonna add some salt And you can be pretty generous because you're gonna drain the water off of the pasta And then you're gonna add some olive oil and this is where you want to use your less expensive olive oil They're just adding it so that the pasta doesn't stick together And then we're just gonna add some pasta and I'm using quinoa pasta give it a little stir And then we're gonna go and make our pasta sauce So this is where everything starts. This is the heart of action when we're making anything savory Clearly you don't want to eat the skin so cut the skin off if you do this quickly You won't even cry Then we're just gonna use half of an onion because it adds nice flavor So I'm gonna keep the other half in the fridge for later So I'll just pop it in a Ziploc bag and then the other thing I'm gonna do is cut up a clove of garlic To get the skin off of the garlic. I use the flat part of the blade and go like this Whack and there the skin got cracked and it comes off really easily now Basically, you just have to be careful of your fingers I remember when I was a medical student and we would do our Emergency room shifts in the evening and at 8 o'clock on the dot there would be a lineup of mums coming in to have fingers Stitched up because they had been chopping onions for their dinner So keep your fingers out of the way of your knife. You can start by kind of roughly chopping it up You just want to expose as much as you can to the olive oil Then you can hold the tip of the knife and just kind of go like this. I Don't even know what this is called, but it makes it into smaller pieces You don't need a lot of equipment to cook. You just need one knife and one board and a pot Okay, so let's get some tomatoes now. They can be ideally Their tomatoes that you grew in your backyard, which is amazing But not everybody has the luxury of a backyard with a garden So any kind of tomato you can get from the market is fine Just cut it in half and cut out this hard bit that the stem was attached to and get rid of that And then there are a couple of different alternatives You could either put it in a blender and just blend it up like a smoothie and put it in or you can just chop it And I'm lazy to get my blender out. So I'm just going to chop it up like this doesn't have to be small pieces because The tomato is going to cook down and it's going to become a sauce So you're going to kind of mush it up any way at the end. So we're cutting up our tomato Fearlessly except that we're keeping our fingers away from the blade of the knife and there We have the basis for a homemade tomato sauce and once you've had a homemade tomato sauce You will never go back to the bottled kind Okay, so we're going to head over to the stove and start making our tomato sauce You want to take a tomato? Okay. I have children who like eating fresh tomatoes. I am so lucky I'm so happy about that. It's time to drain our pasta It's not overcooked and I'm just going to pour it into the colander To let all of the water off If you want you can rinse it with hot water just to get some of the starch off So now we're going to make our tomato sauce. We've got our pot on medium-high heat We added a couple of glugs of olive oil and we're just letting that heat up for a few minutes And the first thing we're going to add and this is the best smell that can fill your kitchen is Our chopped up onions and garlic and we're just going to add that in You can hear it and smell it at the same time This is the first step to every savory vegetable base dish saute your onions and garlic You can add mushrooms to that you can add zucchinis You can add any fresh vegetable and it will taste good even if you just want to Flavor it with salt and pepper. It'll taste great Okay So now you can see that our onions are getting a little bit kind of glassy and translucent looking and But they're not yet burned so you don't want to burn the especially the garlic doesn't taste great if it gets burned So try not to let it burn but get it to this stage and then the next thing we're going to do is add our tomatoes We're going to add a little bit of salt Because remember we said we're going to try and hit all of those receptors So we've got the sourness from the tomatoes So we don't need to add lemon juice to this and then we're going to add a little bit of sugar To the sauce just to balance it off and if you want you can add spices like Paprika for example. Are you coming to join me my friend? Are you going to stir for me? You just want to smell it This is the tomato sauce lover in our family don't get too close Okay, so those tomatoes are just going to stew in here and Then you have to make a decision If you don't mind a runny sauce you can just leave it like this It'll be delicious you can put it on your on your pasta after it's cooked for a while But if you want it to be a little bit thicker you can add a little bit of cornstarch and And this is going to make our sauce thicken We're just going to mix it up probably about a teaspoon but if it's a bit more or a bit less It's not going to kill your sauce You can see now that our sauce has gotten a little bit thicker and what we're going to do now is We're going to just pound it you could just use a fork You could put your tomatoes in a blender So those are all options and now we can cut up our Fresh mozzarella cheese that we're going to put into our casserole It's basically just a really nice mild kind of cheese with a lot of calcium and protein in it And what I do is I just slice some thick slices of this And you're going to basically just layer this with your pasta and your sauce Okay, so we've got our pasta That we cooked and we're just going to basically Put it down into a dish You can add a bit of your cheese and the heat of the pasta and then the heat of the sauce that you're going to Pour on top will actually melt your cheese for you And then I'm just going to take our nice homemade tomato sauce and I'm going to pour it over here and then I'm going to top it off with a little bit of grated cheese because The kids love cheese. I can hear them coming for dinner already and that is our pasta casserole