Mmmm Bacon Cream Pasta

I was looking through the pictures on my camera and I found a handful of pictures I had taken the week after I made the meatloaf and had a bunch of leftover bacon that I hadn't posted. I didn't really follow any recipe but mostly I just felt naughty because of all the bacon. My word it was good.

First I cut up the leftover bacon..

Then I boiled some pasta.. I love this shape.

Gemelli!

Then I cooked the bacon down, rendering all that yummy bacon grease out and removed the bacon to a bowl.

Then.. And this is where I felt really bad.. I measured out the bacon grease, it was about 1/4 cup.. and I added another 1/4 of butter back into the pan with an equal amount of flour.. And made a bacon roux.

Then I made a white sauce made of milk and some chicken broth, salt, pepper, some spices..

And I added the pasta and all the bacon back into it.

It was amazing. The cream sauce itself tasted like bacon. I'll never make it again because it was just too good.

There you have it.

Oh and hey, look what I found at the store.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? YES.

They're pretty good. I love me some creamsicles.

Anyway tonight I'll be making a recipe I made a few saturdays ago but didn't wind up taking pictures of. It was beef stuffed twice baked potatoes. I liked the flavors a lot but I found that the baking and the scooping and the filling and so on was a bit much effort and I'd like to try it as a big sheperd's pie type casserole. So I will! Because it's my kitchen!