How to Make Really Good Pasta without Much Effort

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Basic Ingredients and implements:

Olive oil

Cloves of garlic and a garlic press

One chopped onion, any size you like

Zucchini, organic, sliced (if you use non-organic I won't tell)

Cherry tomatoes and/or a can of same

Grated parmesan

Goat cheese wrapped in bacon (available at many supermarkets) baked for around twenty minutes. 

Prosciutto, sliced but not fried.

Pour a little oil in the frying pan--a tablespoon or two, and heat. Add chopped onions and pressed garlic, stirring constantly, and reduce heat. Add sliced zucchini and sauté; add whatever else you want, but probably the tomatoes, and stir. You'll have something like this:

This, dumped over the pasta of your choice, which you've been making alongside the sauce, is fine, but ordinary. What makes it special is the following:

(1) Once you've poured the sauce over the pasta, you add the prosciutto, which has been cooling its heels on a little board:

Toss in the prosciutto. I once tried frying it--a bad idea. Just toss it in.

Top the whole thing with the goat cheese wrapped in bacon, still sitting in your oven, where it's been baking at around 190º C (375º F) for around twenty minutes. Sprinkle on the parmesan. Enjoy with a glass of red wine--I recommend EntrecÔte.