Colourful Spirali with Beef Tomato Sauce

On lazy weekends, sometimes I just want to stay away from those tedious cooking preparations and cook simple meals. That means, an all-in-one dish - noodles, fried rice, pasta. And for such a blazing hot day like today, pasta is my choice. Just simply because ... I wanted pasta!

Pasta is probably the first real meal I cooked many years ago. Because I loved Spaghetti Bologna so much. Then spaghetti introduced me to all of its family - penne, spirali, angel hair, fettuccine, farfalle, lasagna, shells, any a whole bunch more. Wow. Don't you just LOVE the amazing choices of pasta available to suit your liking??? My trusted brands are usually Barilla and San Remo's. Plus, they have a whole load of good pasta stuffs!

There is 2 styles I'd cook my pasta - either the Italian/Western way or the Malaysian way. My mum makes it in another version - Malay style with a savoury spiced-up soup. Real yummy, I tell you! Hmm, I'll feature that one one day when I see mum cook it ;-)

Malaysian way - hmm, basically meaning using some ingredients such as chili padi, chili paste, and tomato sauce instead of pasta sauces... And there is no cheesy chweesy ingredients involved (that is just because I forgot to grab some from the groceries...)

Simple preparation on my lazy day. As you can see and guess. I just had these:
Some minced beef
3 garlic, chopped
1 large green onion, chopped
5 cili padi, finely sliced
1 red tomato, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1/4 carrot, grated
1/2 can tomato puree
1/2 can Heinz cream of tomato soup
a few dashes of McCormick's Italian Herbs
1 teaspoon grounded black pepper
and of course,
1 packet of San Remo's colourful spirali pasta