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Baby Friendly 10 minute pasta n' sauce

With a PhD thesis looming and a baby to look after I'm all for 10-minute meals...this meal takes as long as the pasta takes to cook and is quite yummy (Andrew almost didn't get any...)

Ingredients:

• Baby pasta (or normal and cut it up)
• Oil (I used Rapeseed 'cos it's slightly better for you)
• Tomatoes (I used baby tomatoes but big ones will do too)
• Tomato pureé
• Baby stock cube (your prefered flavour, I used veg)
• Water
• Herbs (basil and thyme are good, thyme is very rich in iron (more than spinach I think) but you can use any other herbs you like)
• dash of lemon juice (to taste)

Put the pasta on to cook, while you do chop the tomatoes small and chop the herbs. put some oil (just a little) in the pan and put it on a low heat.

Add the tomatoes and herbs and a little water (just a little) and then cut about 1/3 of the stock cube off and chop it up and add it to the pan. Put the rest of the stock cube in the fridge. I don't know if you can re-use stock once it's open, I do though, but don't if you think its bad!

Using a wooden spoon mix the stock into the mixture.

Add the pureé and the dash of lemon (and anything else I've left out!) and gently warm until the pasta is cooked. Add water to taste depending on how much stock you added and how strong you want it. Voila! Done! :)

Andrew seemed to like it anyway...