I'm no chef nor am I that good of a cook. I'm lucky. I have two roommates that love to cook and I get to eat fantastic meals. Some of them are posted -- some of course not. But having said all of this, I do cook. I make pastas along with my Italian heritage and go to my pantry and pull out random things and put them together. This on occasion works.
Lately I made a good Alfredo sauce. Technically I don't think it's even called an Alfredo sauce because I added several extra ingredients -- garlic and of course bacon. However, I would just call this snobbery and will call my pasta anything that I like. This is one of my favorite sauces and anything called "heart attack on a plate" has to be good! It does not take that long to make but just make sure to have your pasta ready and a hand ready to stir the sauce to keep it from getting clumpy.
Pasta with Alfredo Sauce and Bacon
1/2 stick of butter
1 cup of heavy cream
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 1/2 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 strips of cooked bacon
salt and pepper to taste
Melt the butter over low heat in a pan. Then add the cream while stirring. After a few minutes add the cheese, garlic, red pepper and bacon. Finally pepper and salt the sauce to taste. Though you need to remember that bacon and the cheese add a fair amount of salt on their own accord. Continuously stir until you add the sauce to about a pound of cooked pasta.
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