Bacon Aglio Olio

The type of Aglio Olio in Italian restaurants in Taiwan is rarely. But, I ate once in the student’s cafeteria in my husband’s university. It is weird, isn’t it? Sold at student’s cafeteria?

Traditionally, Aglio Olio was offered to the poor who couldn’t afford to add other sauce. It is reasonable to be sold at university’s cafeteria, isn't it. But, who care? I just like food with garlic flavor. So, I like this kind of simple pasta, the strong garlic flavor mixing into my spaghetti.

Recipe: Serve 1 Person

 

Steps of Bacon Aglio Olio

(1) Prepare a fried-pan. Add olive oil in the pan. Switch the medium heat on. Add chili pepper and garlic in the pan. Fry chili pepper and garlic around 8 minutes.

(2) Prepare a saucepan. Boil spaghetti with a little salt and a little olive oil. It takes around 12~15 depend on manufacturers.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Avoid sticky pasta by adding olive oil to the pasta water.)

(3) Add bacon into the fried-pan. Fry bacon around 2~3 minutes.

(4) Then, add chopped mushroom into the fried pan. Fry until it turns soft.

(5) Dry spaghetti. Then add it into the fried-pan. Well-incorporate all ingredients.

(6) Add spinach in before the spaghetti is ready. Season pasta with some salt. Switch the heat off.

 

It is so YUM~~~ I felt like I want one more after eating the whole. Pasta can be so delicious without adding any extra pasta sauce. Just enjoy the pure flavor with chili pepper, garlic, and olive oil mixed with spaghetti. It is just so easy. The type of Aglio Olio will become the regular showing on my dining table. Enjoy it and don’t forget to prepare more. Because you definitely want more.

Meatball Pasta with Tomato Sauce

IKEA is very famous worldwide because of not only their design of furniture, but also their meatball. If I go to IKEA, I would like to have a plate of meatball there. They also sell the frozen meatballs. So, of course, I purchased a bag of meatball. If you have purchased one, you know how many meatballs per bag. I can’t use the same way to cook meatball every time so that meatball past. Um… It sounds yum…

Recipe: Serve 4~5 people

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Steps of Meatball Pasta with Tomato Sauce

(1) Prepare a fried-pan with oil. No need to have too much oil that just needing to cover the bottom. Add meat balls into the pan. Switch to the medium heat. Fried all meatballs until it turns tender.

(2) Prepare another saucepan that boiling water to cook spaghetti. Add salt and a little olive oil in to avoid sticky. It takes around 12~15 minutes depend on every manufacturer. Stir a while every 5 minutes.

(3) Get meatballs out of the pan into a bowl. Set aside. And then, use the same pan to fry mushrooms.

(4) When mushroom turns tender, adding meatballs back
(5) Add tomato sauce into the pan, the amount of tomato sauce needs to over the height of meatball. Add salt and black pepper to season the sauce. Boil the sauce around 2 minutes and then switch the heat off.

(6) Place spaghetti on the plate. And then, pour the sauce and meatballs over the top. Sprinkle some cheese over the top.

 

Meatball pasta was inspirited by the movie, Hancock, that Mary cooks meatballs pasta for their family. As I said before, I am not a fan of tomato sauce so that I just leave this recipe away. After cooking Bolognese Lasagna last time, I found out tomato sauce can be so scrumptious. So, why not just cook meatballs pasta with tomato sauce!! Enjoy it.