Chunky Sausage and Tomato Pasta

Another easy recipe from the BBC Good Food website. It's really useful to get inspiration when doing the weekly shop online as you can easily check off all the ingredients in your virtual basket. A great tool so don't be put off by the pink makeover it has been given in recent days.

I didn't fry the sausages, choosing instead to pop them in the oven while I caught up with The Apprentice. The garlic and basil were from my collection of Waitrose frozen Cooks' Ingredients so there was little preparation involved.

The wine really does lift the dish, without it, the meal would be quite stodgy and as you boil it, little alcohol content is left so it is perfectly fine for families. Even so, 'reduce the wine' is not an instruction one should generally follow but is permissible in these circumstances as the need for 200ml required, quite clearly, the opening of a full bottle of Pinot Grigio.

A good tea but we couldn't really do it justice having scoffed lovely burgers at Frankie and Benny's ahead of a trip to the cinema earlier. The leftovers will make a nice lunch tomorrow though.