So, I’m busy renovating a new house I just purchased. I’m packing the old as I prepare for the new. One week of frustrated remodeling, endless lifting and throwing out, I can tell you that the force was not with me, or at least nowhere within a mile radius of this broken down body. And it is with a heavy sigh that I tell you that even in the midst of this ginormous undertaking, I am slowly imagining my next recipe to feature.
The new house is torn up-side-down at the moment yet I cannot help but wonder what my first meal will be. Really though, I already know what it will be. Not only am I a huge fan of pork, well bacon– that is, I wholeheartedly believe a house is not a home until you’ve fried bacon in it. Nothing, says welcome like down home greasy strips of parched bacon. It’s a familiar smell that seems to permeate throughout the living quarters latching onto anything that will hold odor. Strange I know, but it’s true. You know what I’m talking about. And since my home screams of bleach and paint, the sweet smell of fried bacon will annihilate the leftover stench of paint and cleaning solvents.
While I took a break from my busy work long enough to stop and smell the bacon, I ravished through this quick little meal in record time and I concluded there is only one sense that equals the aroma of fried bacon and that’s the taste.
Pasta and Bacon
By Published: May 31, 2009
- Yield: 4 Servings
- Prep: 10 mins
So, I’m busy renovating a new house I just purchased. I’m packing the old as I prepare for the new. One week of frustrated …
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb. smoked bacon
- 1/2 lb. pene pasta cooked according to package
- 1 large can diced tomatoes
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 tsp. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper
- fresh basil leaves for garnish
- 1/4 cup brandy
- 1/4 cup Asiago cheese grated
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan boil the pasta according to the package. In a medium pan fry the bacon. Remove the fried bacon and drain the excess grease leaving about 2 T. of grease. Sautee the onion and garlic for one minute. Now, deglaze the pan with the tomatoes, sugar, red pepper, basil and brandy. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Drizzle the tomato mixture over the pasta and top with crumbled bacon and asiago cheese.
