Tonights meal is proudly brought to you by chunky mediterranean vegies

Cook enough pasta for 3 people.
In heavy based, large frying pan, seal meat of choice (This also infers you can not use meat, if you so desire). Remove meat from frying pan and finish cooking in oven (A later post will detail how to cook the perfect steak).
De-glaze with white wine or dry sherry (you can use stock if you don't drink alcohol).
Add chunky chopped onions, zucchini, yellow squash, snow peas, and other chunky hard vegies of choice.
Around 2 minutes before serving, add a good double handful of cherry tomatoes (these should all be chopped in half, or the seeds with spurt at a super hot temp and burn the inside of your mouth), and some (seeded, whole) black olives.
Stir through some pesto and the pasta, and right before serving, some good mozarella or bocconcini cheese.