-Warm oil in a pan, add pepper and pasta when it's boiled, add grated cheese.
-Simmer a clove of garlic and chili pepper (to taste) in oil, add pasta.
-Sweat a diced onion and carrot in oil, add half a kilo of meat (whichever you choose) and turn up the heat. Add half a litre of stock and let it simmer gently for at least an hour.
-Whisk some egg yolks (depending on how big they are) with grated cheese and pepper, bake thin slices of lardy meat, stir with freshly cooked pasta.
That's the basics for open pasta (as opposed to lasagne, tortellini or ravioli). You can add wine, tomatoes, Swiss cheese, mushrooms, veal tongue, duck meat, tarragon, parsley, chives or celery. Whatever. It's all been done 30 years ago.