Dad's Famous Bow Tie Pasta

by Jayce Reese in , ,


Ingredients:  

Farfalle pasta noodles

1 Orange or yellow pepper 

4-6 slices of thick cut bacon 

Kale or fresh spinach 

Heavy whipping cream

1 stick of Butter

Boil noodles until tender and drain. Add garlic salt and pepper to noodles. Dice pepper. You may cook the bacon on the stove but I prefer to bake mine at 375 for 15-20 minutes. The bacon actually comes out tasting better and you protect yourself from potentially getting popped with grease!  After the bacon is finished, pour a bit of the grease in a skillet and sauté the peppers and kale/spinach. If you wanted to add some other meat like shrimp or any other seafood, sauté along with the veggies. Move all of that to separate bowl and begin to make the homemade white pasta sauce. 


Melt 1/2 stick of better add a hefty amount of garlic salt, black pepper, and parsley to the butter. Once it's almost melted, add about 2/3 of the whipping cream container. You can really play it by eye and determine how saucy you want your pasta. Allow the cream and butter to sit for 2-3 mins and stir occasionally and add a bit more of the garlic salt and pepper.  Then add the noodles, veggies and bacon. Add more garlic salt, pepper and parsley flakes. Then stir and allow for pasta to cook on stove top until sauce thickens.