I’m not a planner of meals. I spend probably 65% of my day planning, and scheduling my time, that when it comes to food, I just kind of fly by the seat of my pants. I’m also really bad at writing down recipes that I come up and love. So I purposely took a picture so I would remember!
I had house guests this past weekend and knew they needed some good home cooked food. Fill your belly kind of food. So I made them pasta. I don’t eat a lot of pasta, but when I do, I make it worth my while rich and creamy, full of flavor and of course with bacon. Bacon makes everything so much better. And I won’t lie, after I took this photo… I added WAY more cheese, because…well cheese is my main food source. That’s not an exaggeration. Also, a one year old ate this, and if a baby with or kiddo will eat something, it normally means it’s not terrible tasting!
Ingredients:
1 box penne pasta cooked
1.5 cups cream
1/2 cup real butter
1 jar sun-dried tomatoes
1 small jar marinated artichokes
1 small onion chopped
5 cloves of garlic minced
Italian seasoning (as much as you want for taste)
7 strips of bacon cooked and chopped
Two large chicken breast cooked and sliced into thin pieces
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh parmesan to garnish
How To:
Sautée onion and garlic in butter until clear. Add cream and sun-dried tomatoes until it becomes a little more thick (4 or 5 minutes, if you need to add pasta water to help that process do that.) Add artichokes and stir for another few minutes. Let sauce thicken a bit. Add seasoning. Mix together in large bowl, pasta, bacon, and chicken. Add salt and pepper to taste. Top with parmesan cheese.