Kid Food: Pasta with Tomato Sauce

We eat this at least 3 times a week:
 
In a pot of salted, boiling water (with a few drops oil added - yeah I know, it's a BIG "real cook" no-no, but too bad), boil up enough twirly pasta for 2, ie half a 500g bag, generally speaking.
 
By boil, I mean: bring the water to a boil, throw in the pasta, stir, turn off the heat, put on the pot lid and let it sit for 8-10 minutes. No burned pasta, no boiling over, perfectly cooked.
 
Drain over the sink in a colander once cooked - leave it there while:
 
In the empty pot, slosh in olive oil to cover the base, add a teaspoon of crushed garlic.  Heat it up and once sizzling, throw in a can of chopped peeled tomatoes and a small can of tomato paste.  Add a teaspoon salt, a teaspoon sugar and a generous sprinkle of dried Italian herbs.  Once heated through and nicely bubbling (leave the lid on for this or you'll be cleaning red tomato spots off the stove afterwards), throw your drained pasta in.  Switch off the heat, stir through thoroughly to coat the pasta with the sauce.  You can leave it a while to absorb the sauce too, which makes it taste great - but we're usually too hungry to wait.
 
Dole out into 2 bowls, cover in grated cheese and serve.
 
(Note - this is not a nutritionally complete meal, but who cares.  It tastes great!)

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