Being a young couple, (yes, I still consider us young, I know some of my friends my be chuckling away right now, I am still young ok.. hehe) we work from morning till the evening and do not make time for cooking. Cooking is such a chore, especially the need to clean up. Anything more than one dish is considered as complicated. Cooking is fun, but cleaning up after that, is not. It’s the thought of cleaning up that drives us to dine outside almost everyday. We dine out so much that, at one time, we become regular weekly customers to some restaurants. We just need to sit down, and the waiter would know what we want. We can’t afford to dine out that often anymore and this kinda made us to look towards our kitchen.

We came across a tomato soup with pasta recipe and improvised on it. The ingredients are:

Portions that serve 2:
Pasta: As much as you can eat.
Tomato: 1 Can skinned whole tomato & 2 table spoon of tomato paste.
Meat: Sausage, or chicken, or any meat of your choice, as much as you can eat.
Carrots: As much as you can eat.
Celery: As much as you can eat.
Onion: 1 large white onion.
Garlic: 2 clove of garlic.
500ml of water. Use 300 if cook for one person.
Black Pepper: To taste.
Anything else you want to dump into the soup. As long as it goes well with the savory tomato taste.

The ingredients are really up to you, there is no special formulae here, after all, this is a lazy man tomato pasta soup. Once you have the ingredients ready, you can cook the pasta to soften it, remove the pasta from heat once it is partially soft.

Then cut all the ingredients into bite size, how small or large is up to your liking. The larger the size, the longer it takes to cook, best if you could be consistent on the size, this is to avoid some of the larger size vegi undercook.

Firstly fry the onion, garlic and sausage/meat together. Once the meat is cooked, you can dump the can of peeled tomato, 500ml of water, and 2 table spoon of tomato paste. Add in all the cut vegetables and also the pasta. Bring to boil till pasta is soft. Add black pepper for taste.

Whoala, the lazyman pasta tomato soup is done.

On this day..

• Lazy Man Hawaiian Pizza - 2006
• Starbucks Christmas Gift Card - 2006