Pasta with bacon and pesto

Pasta with pesto is a dish I enjoy plain, with turkey meat, chicken, mussels, scallops and, yes, bacon. Nothing you can add to pasta and pesto seems to be wrong. We had spaghetti with pesto and bacon for lunch today. The girls are having their mid-term exams and are on a half-day schedule. I prepared so much food thinking they could use a good lunch after the often mind-wrenching exams at their school.

Spaghetti with bacon and pesto

We had the pasta, there was shrimp and egg-drop soup (for them only because I am allergic to shrimps) and, for dessert, buko pandan. I wasn’t quite done with the preparations when the school bus arrived and they helped me with the final touches. Alex shredded the cheese and it was Sam who did the presentation for the pasta — spaghetti with pesto at the bottom, bacon bits sprinkled on top and garnished with shredded medium cheddar. Great lunch. We were eating and chatting for over and hour.

Serves 3 to 5.

Ingredients:

225 g. of spaghetti, cooked and drained
about 1/2 c. of pesto (see recipe for homemade pesto)
400 g. of bacon, chopped, pan fried and drained
shredded cheese

Toss the spaghetti and pesto together. Place in a pasta bowl.

Sprinkle the bacon bits on top. Garnish with shredded cheese.

Serve with buttered toast.

Wow, that’s the shortest cooking procedure I’ve ever written in my entire life.

February 3, 2009  Print This Post   
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4 Responses to “Pasta with bacon and pesto”
  1. raine says:
    February 4, 2009 at 5:08 am

    What type of cheese did you use? I like the colors in the pic.

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  2. Connie says:
    February 4, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Medium cheddar, Raine.

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  3. waswi says:
    February 6, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    my saliva is starting to drool. i just love pesto in the pasta so much! plus the bacon on it, this weekend, hundred percent, i’m gonna try this! thanks for such an idea, connie.i usually use tuna flakes in my version though…

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  4. michelle says:
    September 15, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    hello Miss. Connie,

    I was juz wondering do you know how to cook garlic shrimps and mushroom pasta? i ate at pizzahut and ohh!!! it’s just marvelous!Please….i wanna know so that i can cook it at home! thank a lot!

    Reply
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