A Wild Young Under-Whimsy

An unexpectedly good and quick dinner. I boiled some pasta and while it was cooking I chopped three roma tomatoes into small cubes and put them in a plastic container. I shook salt, pepper and lots of dried thyme over them and then mixed it through to marinate in the tomato juice.

Then I fried some garlic in olive oil and added the tomatoes to the pan. Stirred them round in the pan to mix through the garlic and oil. Then I added a cup of chicken stock and two generous teaspoons of tomato paste. Cooked it at high heat to reduce the liquid because by now the pasta was cooked.

I put the cooked pasta in a bowl, put the sauce on top, added heaps of parmesan and stirred the whole thing through. Then I ate it while watching Enola Holmes on Netflix. The stock was the secret – it made the whole thing more savoury than just the tomato flavour.

If I made this again I would streamline it by mixing the chopped tomatoes in the same bowl I ultimately served the pasta in, and I would mix the cooked pasta in with the sauce in the pan.

Wanna know something fun as well? The whole thing was ready in 25 minutes – the length of the famous pomodoro timer.

ASMR beauty tutorials with Obi-Wan Kenobi. A joke I like is that Obi-Wan Kenobi will help you out of any desperate situation, no matter what it is. A minute ago I was examining my ravaged face in the cruel morning daylight of the bathroom, and I moaned to myself, “help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” 

And then I had a very satisfying fantasy of Obi-Wan bustling into my bathroom and providing me with soothing beauty treatments, commenting all the time on what he was doing in his soothing Alec Guinness cadences, and then making up my face perfectly using the power of the light side of the Force so that I looked fabulous in my Zoom tutorial this morning. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this window into my interior life.