Recipe - Carbonara

Phew! It took me a while to find this recipe, but I found it at Liberal Simplicity (formerly budgetconfessions.blogspot.com). Read her blog for more directions - I'm basically listing what I do.

Ingredients:

• Meat (strongly suggest bacon!) and veggies
• 1/2 c heavy cream (may need more depending on how much meat you use - sometimes I add whole milk if I don't have enough cream on hand).
• garlic
• 2 lightly beaten eggs
• salt and pepper
• bit o' crushed red pepper

This recipe is so versatile! Last time I made this I used 1 pound ground beef, bacon and zucchini.

Directions:
Saute garlic (I used 3 cloves) in some bacon grease over low heat for one minute (don't let it get brown). Add salt, pepper and red pepper. Add cream and cook for three minutes until sauce starts to boil. If you are me, you'll totally forget about the sauce and let it come to a complete boil. OOPS!

Take the sauce off the burner and SLOWLY pour beaten eggs into the sauce whisking continuously. Add meat (bacon, chicken, sausage, burger, whatever leftover meat you have).

Now for the fun part: Take this recipe and make it yours! Per the original recipe, in the past I've added fresh spinach in at the very end and it was tasty even though I don't usually care for cooked spinach. Fresh tomatoes and onions were awesome in this recipe as well. Some day I may try canned tomatoes in this. The recipe calls for parmesan cheese which I'm sure would be excellent.

This is one of our family favorites (I left out the pasta even though it's traditionally a pasta dish).