Prepare the vegetables. Clean the sweet pepper from the insides and cut into small cubes. Similarly, chop the onion and carrots. Passerate the vegetables in a pan with olive oil until transparent.

Place the mince in the pan and cook, breaking up any lumps with a spatula.

Pour in the water or stock and simmer the sauce for about 10 minutes over low heat. 

While the sauce is cooking, cut out the snowflakes, and stars and cut the trunk out of the cheese. Add salt, pepper, and spices to taste.

Boil water in a saucepan. Cook the spaghetti according to package directions. Set aside some of the parmesan to serve.

Combine the spinach, Parmesan, almonds, olive oil, and a couple of spoonfuls of water in the bowl of a blender. Whisk the contents of the bowl until smooth. Drain the spaghetti in a colander and transfer it to a bowl. Add the spinach mixture and blend.

To make the Christmas tree, take about 10 spaghetti and wrap them around the palm of your hand. Lay them out as the bottom tier of the Christmas tree. Wrap the next set around about 4 fingers. The tier will become smaller.

Continue laying out the spaghetti, wrapping them around 3, 2, and 1 finger.  Lay out the star and trunk of cheese. Add the onion rings. 

Pour bolognese sauce hot off the heat over the spaghetti. Decorate the dish with snowflakes, grated parmesan, red berries, and parsley.

You can make a Christmas tree out of rigatoni, linguine, and penne and get other variations of a similar dish every time. Experiment with additions to varieties of cheese and savory components.

Bon appetit!