Fill medium pot ⅔ full of water, and put on high to boil.

Add sliced onion. Stir briefly until seasoning has been evenly distributed.

Remove sausages from casing (I do this by gently slicing the casing with a knife and then squeeze the meat out directly into the pan). Break meat apart with spatula or fork and cook until meat is cooked through. Add sun-dried tomatoes, stir till throughly mixed, and turn off heat.

Around this time, your pot of water will be getting to a boil. Add pasta and cook till done (following instructions on pasta packaging, usually 10-12 m). Drain pasta, *reserving about 1 cup of pasta water.* Do not rinse pasta.

Put hot, cooked pasta into pan with meat mixture. (You can turn heat to low-medium if you think dish needs to be heated up.) Add grated Parmesan. Thoroughly mix pasta, cheese and meat, adding a little pasta water to moisten as you go. (I usually add between ¼-½ c of pasta water.)

Variations: don’t like things too spicy? Use mild Italian sausages and cut the chili flakes. Chorizo sausage is also delicious. Try adding blanched broccolini for more veggies.