Bacon Explosion!

Ok, we might be slightly obsessed with bacon in our house.  If it's in the fridge, I think "Why not use it for every meal"?!?  After our pancakes Sunday morning, I decided to make pasta with the bacon Sunday night.  It's an old stand by recipe (although it's so easy, I'm not sure you can call it a recipe).  Sometimes when I make this, I use the pasta maker attachment to my Kitchen Aid and make homemade linguine.  Tonight, we just used whole wheat rotini pasta.


First, I sauteed bacon in a little olive oil until it was crispy and had rendered most of it's fat

I skimmed out the bacon, leaving the fat behind, and added a diced onion to cook in the fat

Once I added the onion and let it cook, I opened a can of diced tomatoes and poured it in

I cooked the pasta while the tomato sauce simmered.  Once the pasta had cooked, I reserved some of the pasta water to add into the sauce.  This is my secret way of thickening the sauce with starch from the pasta and adding flavor with the salty water.

The final step was cooking the sauce for another ten minutes, and then all you have to do is add the cooked pasta and bacon!  We topped with parmesan and enjoyed the dish with a nice glass of red wine :)