Pasta Carbonara -

Looking for something love-ly to make your special sweetie tomorrow? Pasta Carbonara is super easy to make, looks impressive and tastes delicious. Not including your pasta, it only has four ingredients! It's a perfect dish for your kids to help you make Dad a special dinner. A warning though, this is not a recipe for those watching their cholesterol and calories as you will see from the ingredients list:

1 egg

1 cup of milk*

3 slices of bacon cooked and chopped up

1 Tablespoon of butter

1. Pour your milk into a small bowl and crack your egg into it. Give it a stir with a fork but don't scramble your egg. Set these aside, while your pasta is cooks, until room temperature.

2. Cook your pasta according to the package directions. Drain and return to the pot. Add your butter and stir over low heat to coat your noodles.

3. Add your egg/milk mixture and continue stirring until pasta is coated and the egg starts to solidify.

4. Add your bacon and stir to evenly distribute.

* You can use whatever fat content milk you prefer, for a richer flavor you can use half and half but this recipe tastes just as good with regular 2% milk too. Enjoy!

Bean Soup Recipe

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It's pretty rainy and dreary here today despite being a LOT warmer than it has been.  One of my best cold weather comforts is  hot soup.  This recipe was given to me by my Mom she called it "Fat Burner Bean Soup."  It was a favorite of mine when I was doing Weight Watchers and still is!  I haven't done WW in a while so I don't know how their point system is working nowadays but using the one I used to know you can eat this whole pot of soup for 2 points!  It has tons of fiber that totally cancells out the fact that it's flavored with bacon.  How great is that?!

The B52s claim "Everybody likes butterbeans!" but by all means, substitute a can of your favorite beans here if you don't care for them.  I like to eat this soup with cornbread.  Mmmmm!

2 slices of raw bacon

1/4 C chopped onion

1 clove chopped garlic

1 chopped carrot

1 stalk of celery--chopped

1/2 C sliced mushrooms

1t dried Italian herbs

1 15 oz. can of butterbeans (use all the juice)

1 8 oz. can of diced tomatoes (use all the juice)

1 can of chicken broth

Cut your raw bacon into little 1 inch bits, fry over medium heat in a 2 quart saucepan until it's crispy but not dark.  Add your chopped onion, garlic, carrot, celery and mushrooms.  Sautee in the bacon drippings until slightly soft, add Italian seasoning.  Add the chicken broth, diced tomatoes and the beans.  Bring to a boil and the cook about 15 minutes or so on low heat.  If you can wait tastes even better the 2nd day!