A Quick and Easy Emergency Dish

I live in Italy and when I am in holiday at seaside with my friends we often need to have a quickly but easy lunch.

This is a very poor but tasteful Mediterranean dish, and the cooking time is incredible short.

Ingredients

• 300g of pasta ( not spaghetti )
• 2/4 anchovy fillets
• 50/60 gr Black Olives without the pit
• 250/300g peeled tomato (or tomato sauce)
• Garlic
• Parsley
• Basil
• Oregano

Method

1. Take a pot and fill it with water for 2/3, it must be big enough to contain all the pasta. Light the fire and wait till the water boil.
2. When the water is boiling put an handful of salt (a fist for a 500g of pasta), and after put the pasta in the water. They will cook for 5-10 min, taste it for checking when they are ready.
3. Tip: During the first minute of cooking use the spoon to turn the pasta; in this way it won't glue together.
4. Waiting for the cooking of the pasta take a clove of garlic and put it in another pan with some oil and some hot pepper, leave them for a very quick frying
5. After 40 seconds take off the garlic and the pepper and put the anchovies in the same pan, dice the anchovies in the pan and add the tomatos: let it cooks for 5-10 minutes
6. Near the end mince some parsley and some basil (1 little spoon each would be ok), and put them into the pan adding also a pinch of oregano and your black olives
7. Leave it on small fire for one-two minutes and dress your pasta. Serve it hot with, on desire, some Grana Padano cheese.
8. Good lunch!