I have not yet taken the plunge and subscribed to Real Simple magazine, but I really need to . I find that whenever I see it near the checkout, I nearly always tend to buy it. In October, there was a recipie for "Bacon and Eggs Spaghetti" that just sounded weird. Until I tried it.
A few days ago, Marty had cooked spaghetti, and we didn't use all of it. So it got stored, cold but cooked, in the fridge. I had bought what I now consider to be a Cooking Magic Bullet -- a big bag of Kirkland Cooked Bacon Morsels from Costco. And we had eggs, and we had frozen chopped shallots.
I didn't have the Real Simple recipie at hand, but I had a vague recollection of how weird I thought it was.
So, I heated up a skillet with a little olive oil, dropped in a scant handful of the cooked bacon (just to warm it up) and dumped in a portion of cooked spaghetti and some frozen shallots, shaken from a "juice box" type container.
Sizzle, sizzle. Whoa. Smelled good!
Got everything pretty hot, cracked in two eggs and let them cook, flipping slightly. Topped wiht a bit of grated cheddar.
OMG.
I would never have thought to mix "breakfast ingredients" with spaghetti, but it turned out to be one of the absolute best pasta dishes I had ever had.
Weird, to think that what can really hit you is just the simple combination of mundane ingredients that you'd never think of putting together.
But man, it worked! It was awesome.
Next time I' stuck for what to fix in a pinch, I've got a new go-to recipie.
