Spaghetti with Garlic, Olive Oil, Red Pepper Flakes, and Olives

This is one of my traditional "go to" dinners when i'm sick of other stuff or in a rush or craving pasta or just too lazy to do something else. While the spaghetti's boiling (I eat about 3oz dried for myself for a filling dinner and don't always use spaghetti but any really good Italian dried pasta), I put some really good olive oil in a nonstick pan big enough to toss the pasta in, roughly chop a couple garlic cloves (I like it garlicky), and sort of warm up the garlic for a minute or two on low heat - I don't want to burn it or kill the garlic flavor.

Toss in some red pepper flakes and the pasta and chop up a few kinds of olives (in this case a mix from the TJ's Greek Olive Medley), toss a bunch of grated cheese on, and boom, hot fresh semi-healthy dinner in about 15 min. Yum. This time I had some fresh parsley around so I added a bit.