Pasta with Creamy Bacon and Pea Sauce

It seems like I feature a lot of not so healthy looking recipes in my blog.  In reality, we eat a lot more healthy than not meals, but many of those don't seem exciting or exceptional enough to blog about.  So, mostly I end up posting on the best of the best, which are often of the creamy and or fattening variety.

I found this recipe for Pasta with Creamy Pea Sauce on Pinterest and had been meaning to try it out for a while.  It combines two ingredients that I love - bacon and peas.  It also looked like it would be a quick and easy meal and I wasn't really in the mood to spend hours in the kitchen.  No lie, if you start heating the water for the pasta at the same time you start cooking the bacon, everything will be ready to throw together by the time your pasta is done.  Might not be the healthiest meal on the planet, but it's nice to have a meal that seems "special" without hours of prep time.

The recipe is fairly straightforward, add frozen peas, mint, and a few other ingredients to cooked bacon.  The recipe didn't specify to drain the bacon fat, and so I didn't, but the end result did not seem overly greasy.  I'm sure some substitutions such as turkey bacon and low fat sour cream could bring the calorie count down tremendously, but I don't think there is anything wrong with an occasional indulgence.

Hearty enough for a main dish, but could also be used as a side.  Plenty of flavor and the hubby asked this one to be put into my regular recipe rotation.

The recipe for this can be found at:  Pasta with Creamy Bacon Sauce