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<\/a><\/CENTER><\/p>\nOkay, now that I’m done bragging on my pre-prep obsessive compulsiveness I’ll get on to the rest of it. The … uh … recipe, if you will.<\/p>\n
This is stolen straight from Cooking Light but I’ve cut out all the words like “low fat” and “low sodium” because I think one should enjoy one’s food even if it is likely to kill one sooner.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
okay, so maybe I bought the healthy versions. You’ll never know.<\/p>\n
Spinach Fettucine with (abraham) Bacon<\/B><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/CENTER><\/p>\n1 pound uncooked fettuccine
\n1 tablespoon butter
\n1 garlic clove, minced
\n1\/4 cup cream cheese
\n3\/4 cup chicken broth
\n3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
\n3\/4 cup grated fresh Pecorino Romano cheese
\n3\/4 cup half-and-half
\n1 teaspoon salt
\n1\/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
\n1 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained, and squeezed dry
\n10 center-cut bacon slices, cooked and crumbled (about 1 1\/4 cups)<\/p>\n
1.) Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain pasta, reserving 1\/2 cup pasta water.
\n2.) Melt butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
\n3.) Add garlic; saut\u00c3\u00a9 30 seconds.
\n4.) Add reserved pasta water and cream cheese, stirring with a whisk until smooth.
\n5.) Combine broth and flour in a small bowl, stirring with a whisk until smooth.
\n6.) Add flour mixture to pan, stirring with a whisk to combine; bring to a boil. Cook 2 minutes or until mixture thickens, stirring constantly.
\n7.) Remove from heat; add pecorino Romano, stirring until smooth.
\n8.) Add half-and-half, salt, and pepper. Stir in spinach.
\n9.) Combine cheese mixture and pasta in a large bowl, tossing to coat.
\n10.) Dish it out and top it with bacon.<\/p>\n
EAT. EAT EAT EAT EAT. HURT. BURST. EAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wow. I have totally forgotten how to go about doing this. What … what goes here? A recipe? Details? Who are you again? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?! Oh, so yeah, this recipe was recommended to me and the recommendation was spot-on. This is some seriously tasty stuff and pretty darned easy to make. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}