cheap and easy pasta (a recipe)

a simple lunch dish with lots of fragrance that guarentees MY satisfaction. while it seems to require a lot of ingredients, any stuff other than the pasta is optional, in fact, having two or three of them will already be great. and you can rescale them according to your palate and availability of resources.

Serves 1, that is yourself

125g thin pasta (linguini preferred, but spaghettini is alright. cappellini might be too thin for this. a standard pack of pasta measures 500g, so that's a quarter of it.)
1 shallot, sliced
2 gloves of garlic, thinsliced
1 piece of sundried tomato soaked in oil, thick sliced
5-6 olives (black or green to taste), pitted, crushed into paste
1 anchovy (with oil), crushed
a few capers in vineger, rinsed with water
olive oil (extra virgin is worth it)
salt and pepper

i. do the al dente pasta
a. boil 1.25L of water with 1 tablespoon of salt added.
b. put in the pasta, keep water from boiling too hard.
c. cook for the recommended time MINUS 2 minutes, then drain.
d*. if you can't sychronize with step 3 below, i recommend you to cool the pasta down under running water, drain again, then apply oil evenly on it and reserve.

ii. build the amazing fragrance
1. heat pan with oil (fish oil and tomato oil), sauté shallot and garlic until golden.
2. add olive paste onto the pan until you are drunk with its rich bouquet, then tomato slices, then capers.
3. add your just-done pasta with the anchovy, stir until pasta is uniformly coated with other stuff.
4. add 30mL of water, and stir again until reduced. Season and enjoy right now!

Note:
1. this is a pasta dish without a definite "red or white" sauce. If you feel uneasy without one, add about 100g of can tomato onto the pan before step 3, which makes a typical "roman" sauce. But in this case, you'll need tubed pasta like rigatoni and penne, and halfing (or ringing) the olives instead of crushing them.
2. don't overlook the delicate steps of cooking pasta. the difference is heaven and earth. read this.

(i'll take some photos of it later. so do come back)