Today I bring you my Christmas present. Well one of them.
Carlene bought me some fancy black and white farfalle pasta (now pasta for Christmas would be like coal for some people, but I was excited!) for exclusive use with the blog and I finally got around to cooking it. I was really hungry and wasn’t sure how to use it, so I went for something quick and simple.
You can find similar pasta on Amazon here:
Now let’s get to the recipe!
Potato Bacon Pasta
- 1 Can of Campbell’s cream of potato soup (284 ml)
- milk
- bacon
- white onion
- 250 grams of pasta
First things first, bring a pot full of water to a boil and put your pasta in, cooking until desired tenderness. While all this is going on grab a sauce pan and two frying pans to caramelize your onions and fry your bacon. Typically when somebody cooks bacon in our house, we make lots and just freeze the leftovers, so in my case I just took it out of the freezer and added it to the sauce. But for those who have no bacon you’ll have to fry some up! For your onions just add about a tablespoon of butter to your pan and add as much sliced onion as you would like (I used about half an onion) cooking on medium heat until caramelized.
While this is happening dump the contents of the cream of potato soup into your sauce pan, cooking on medium heat and adding milk until you reach a consistency you like. Once the soup mix begins to smooth out add your bacon and let it cook until your pasta is cooked. Once everything is done, strain your pasta, put it back in the pot or a serving bowl, add the onions and sauce and mix it all up. That’s it!
My favorite kind of recipe, nice and easy!
Enjoy,
Bob
I love that you didn’t feel the need to overcomplicate it with frou frou sauce. It’s cool that you like cream of potato soup from a can. I personally can’t stand the taste of olive oil and won’t use it in any application. It was your bag of pasta and you did what you want with it. Kudos. There will always be people who think that EVERY ingredient needs treated with kid gloves, be it artisanal or off the shelf at Wal-mart. Sometimes it really doesn’t and you sure don’t have to apologize for it.
ahaha, i clicked on this photo from foodgawker because at first i thought you made it yourself. Then i saw the kids in the banner and thought, damn it, a mommy blog, turn back! but then i saw you were a guy. so, not a mommy blog 😛 good for you and your canned soup, who cares. i would buy a canned soup every now and then if it wasn’t a fortune to buy (im in one of those countries that sells anything and everything that comes premade in a package for prices waaaaaaay more than they are worth). yay for being a young blogger! i started blogging when i was 21 and felt i was the youngest in a community of (not to offend) housewives. food blogging has since exploded (almost 4 years later) so keep it up!