Wednesday Pasta

The first four ingredients are for my Alfredo sauce. To make:

Combine the first three ingredients in a sauce pan over medium heat and bring to a rolling boil. This will take a couple of minutes (okay, more like ten minutes) but be sure to stir every now and again so that the milk does not scorch. Or burn. Because both of those would be equally awful.

Once this friendly concoction has reached the rolling boil stage, stir constantly for three minutes and then remove from heat. Immediately throw in the parmesan cheese and stir vigorously for at least a minute. You want the cheese to melt into the sauce. Yum! Then set this mixture aside.

Next, throw the butter into a saute pan over medium heat. When the butter is melted, add garlic and let it sizzle and soften for a minute or two. Then add cooked and crumbled bacon, cleaned and sliced mushrooms, and sundried tomatoes.

Note: I bought dehydrated sundried tomatoes from the store. While I was frying my bacon I boiled some water and then tossed in a handful of them to soften them up. Once softened, I dried the tomatoes off sliced them from top to bottom, and then cut each slice in half. Perfect for bite size.

Back to the recipe…
While the bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes are sizzling, add in a splash of Worcestershire sauce. Weird, I know. But it’s good!

Meanwhile, bring pasta water to a boil and add desired amount of bowtie pasta. Cook al dente (according to package instructions for al dente).

Saute the bacon mixture for 5-7 minutes, until mushrooms are dark. There should be a little juice remaining in the bottom of the pan when done.

Now for the fun part. Pour the bacon mixture into the alfredo sauce. Stir. Place desired serving of bowtie pasta on a plate and then alfredo sauce on top. And because I can’t have a pasta without roma tomatoes of some sort, garnish with diced fresh roma tomatoes and more parmesan cheese. Yum!

P.S. For the picture I did not mix the alfredo sauce and bacon mixture. I layered the pasta, alfredo sauce, bacon mixture, and then garnish so y’all could see what the bacon mixture looks like when done. It’s pretty tasty eating it this way too!