I should have added bacon to my list of foods that improve nearly every dish. Here's an awesome pasta and veggie dish that, with bacon, becomes outstanding. Sorry all you vegetarian readers, this one isn't for you!
Here's my version of this recipe for Penne with Garlicky Broccoli(ni):
Ingredients:
8 oz penne pasta (1/2 of a 1 pound box)
5 slices of bacon
2 broccoli crowns (or one bunch of broccolini), cut into small florets
6 cloves of garlic, minced
3/4 pint of grape tomatoes, cut in half
Parmesan cheese to taste
Directions:
1) Cook penne according to directions on the box. Drain.
2) Meanwhile, fry the bacon until crispy. Move to a paper towel to drain.
3) Add the garlic to the bacon grease* and saute for 3 minutes over medium low heat. Add the broccoli(ni) and cook for another 4 or 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the pasta and grape tomatoes. Stir or toss to coat and mix.
4) Remove from heat. Sprinkle generously with Parmesan cheese, and top with crumbled bacon.
*Okay, fine, I couldn't do it. The recipe called for using the bacon grease. I'm sure that's delicious. I drained most of the bacon grease and used some olive oil.
This recipe originally called for broccolini. I've made it with both broccoli and broccolini, and quite honestly, prefer the broccoli. Of course, I'm in love with broccoli. I should probably marry it. So, my opinion is to use broccoli, but feel free to try it with broccolini.
Random unrelated thought: Bad blogger! I've been sick. Not sick enough to actually get any sympathy, just an unrelenting cough that lasted from 10pm every night until about 3am in the morning. Needless to say, I wasn't getting much sleep. No sleep doesn't make me particularly lucid so it's probably for the best I wasn't blogging. At best, my posts are barely coherent some days anyway :)
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