Cooking spaghetti

Cooking is a skill that both my brother and I need to improve upon. We can cook small foods such as oatmeal, baked beans, eggs, and have even made cakes, but more complicated meals are currently not something we can prepare. However, we are willing to learn. This afternoon we made the meat for spaghetti (Dad prepared the pasta, as that's something he likes doing):

Mum recently read an article about college students not being able to do simple tasks such as toasting bread. While my brother and I are certainly far, far more experienced than that, we do need to work on our cooking.