Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Pasta dinner

One of our go-to dinners, Pasta with bacon and peas. We do make our own bacon, but I think you could use most any quality smoked meat and be fine. A sorta recipe:
Fry your bacon and chop it up, you should have about a double handful.
Boil one pound of pasta, I like fettuccine but spaghetti is good too, add one package of frozen peas at about the last 5 minutes. Drain, reserving about 1 cup of pasta water.
Add the bacon to your now empty pot on low, maybe with some butter or olive oil if it is very lean. Add pasta and peas and grate over about 1/2 cup hard cheese, grind on pepper. pour in the cup of pasta water and stir in about 4 beaten eggs. 
Stir like mad, adding milk or pasta water of it gets too thick, until the eggs are set. 
If you have pre-cooked bacon in the freezer, this dish can be on the table in about 20 minutes, one pot dinner, popular with everyone I cook for :)

1 comment:

  1. The eggs are a great idea - haven't tried that, but will now!

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