ORECCHIETTE WITH PEPPERS AND MUSHROOMS

Ingredients: 500g of orecchiette, 1 yellow pepper, 200g of cream (used for cooking), 50g of tomato sauce, 1 onion, 50g of extra virgin oil, 50g of Parmesan, 50g of tuna.

Method: in a frying pan, brown the onion and the thinly-sliced pepper and tuna. Add the tomato sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook for 10 minutes and add the cream at the end. In a separate pot, boil the orecchiette for 5 minutes, drain them and add them to the frying pan with all the ingredients. Sauté everything for approximately 4 minutes, add Parmesan and serve it . In the picture there isn't the pepper, but just tomatoes...

MEDITERRANEAN PEAS

Ingredients for 4 people:1kg of fresh peas, 300 g onions, a glass of stock, ground parsley, salt, extra virgin olive oil.

Method: Shell the peas and steep them in water. Brown the onions in a casserole with the olive oil. Add the peas, salt them, sprinkle the ground parsley and add the stock. Cook for half an hour, stirring now and again.

MACCHERONI PUGLIESI

Ingredients: 350 g Pennette pasta, 400 g peeled tomatoes, 4 anchovies, de-boned and de-salted, 25 g salted capers, 10 black olives, extra virgin olive oil, Pugliese pecorino cheese, garlic, salt, parsley, pepper or chilli pepper.

Method: brown the garlic with the oil in a pan. Chop the anchovies into pieces and add to the garlic until they melt. Add the peeled tomatoes, capers, black destoned olives and chilli pepper (or pepper) and cook for a further 10 minutes. In the meantime, boil the pennette in plenty of salted water and drain. Coat the pasta with the mixture and sprinkle with Pugliese pecorino cheese if liked.

HOW TO MAKE SPAGHETTI WITH TOMATO

Boil water in a pot (half full), add half spoon of salt. Just when it begins to boil, toss the spaghetti into the pot without broke their. They slowly go below the water level. Bake for about 8 minutes from the resumption of boiling, stirring occasionally. Remove the pot from heat and drain spaghetti in a colander (you must drain all the water). Then put the spaghetti in the empty pot, to fire off, and add the tomato sauce you have before prepared. Stir quickly and immediately serve it with two leaves of basil or a handful of parmesan cheese (grated cheese). Buon appetito!