A recipe

Today was one of those days where I needed to fix a quick meal and my cupboards were (are!) bare. Well, not totally bare, but missing all the ingredients I needed for an old standby. So I was forced to be a little creative. Have you ever seen that old BBC Foods show "Ready, Steady, Cook" where two contestants are paired up with two professional chefs? The contestants bring a few random items from their kitchen and the chefs have to come up with a meal using those items. I loved that show (maybe there's an American version, I don't know). Anyhow, that's what I felt like this a.m.. So here's my made up recipe for a one dish meal with no help from allr*cipes.com.

And I have no name for it.

Ingredients:

oil - olive or canola (or whatever)

1 pkg. bacon (cut into small pieces)

1 lg. onion

1 pkg. elbow macaroni

*Cook macaroni per pkg. instructions. Drain.

*Saute' the onion in approx. 2 tblsp. oil until onions are caramelized.

* Remove onion from pan and add small pieces of bacon.

*Cook bacon until crispy.

*Add onion, bacon and bacon drippings to the cooked pasta. (I use South African bacon so there were very few drippings. I don't know about the bacon in your country. If your bacon leaves you with a whole pan full, I wouldn't use that much. I barely had a tblsp.)

*Mix together with pasta and add salt and pepper to taste

Disclaimers:

1.This recipe is not low-fat or healthy.

2.If you've read this recipe somewhere before then don't tell me because I don't remember reading it anywhere and I think I made it up and I like feeling all smart and creative today.

3. I guess it is similar to pasta carbonara. Without the cheese.

4. It tasted good.

5. Enjoy!