The kids and I were watching someone on the Food Network make this and we all looked at each other with drool hanging out of our mouths. I knew instantly that this would be a perfect kid friendly recipe to try. The ingredients looked simple enough, there weren’t any difficult steps or tools I needed. I didn’t follow a specific recipe but it had bacon, it had to be good.
Ingredients
1/4-1/2 lb Slab Bacon (couldn’t find it but found this steak cut bacon instead)
1 cup corn (there was no fresh corn at store so I used frozen roasted corn)
1 cup tomatoes, halved
1/2 small onion, finely chopped
3 tsps chopped garlic
fresh basil (15 leaves)
fresh parley (handful)
pasta shape of choice
Directions
- Cook pasta according to package directions while cooking everything else. Drain and set aside.
- Heat large sauté pan on medium heat. Chop bacon to 1/4″ pieces and add to hot pan. Cook till fat is mostly rendered and bacon gets crisp.
- Do not drain fat, add corn till warmed through.
- Add garlic and tomatoes and cook until garlic is slightly browned and tomatoes start to soften.
- Add chopped basil and parsley, salt and pepper to taste then pour everything into pasta pot and stir. Turn on heat to pasta pot if needed to heat pasta through again.
- Add broth if you desire a saucier dish. 1/4 cup at a time.
There was very little of this left over, in fact Rob was hungry the next day because leftovers were barely enough to give him an entire lunch. We think Shae and Sabreena had seconds.
Pancetta would be a good subtitute as well as fresh corn, canned chopped tomatoes and oregano instead of basil.
Let me know what you think of this simple but delicious meal.
