Taglierini Alla Chitarra

Very simple, very tasty - if you use good ingredients, that is. Classic Italian cooking relies on the primacy of good ingredients and simple cooking techniques to produce potentially great food.

We use only ripe garden tomatoes or fresh market tomatoes in season to make this recipe. From looking at the ingredients: olive oil, onion, tomatoes, pancetta, basil leaves, pepper, you might think this was overly simple. But simmering them all together for an hour performs an alchemy on the ingredients and makes a wonderful, if a little wet, pasta sauce.