I mean, let's face it, folks...bacon really does make everything better. Period. Have a headache? Slap some bacon on your noggin! Flower garden not up to par this year? Fertilize it with bacon! Jam your big toe walking around the bed in the middle of the night? Wrap it up with a piece of bacon! (If it doesn't feel better soon, you'll probably end up eating it right off, anyways...)
My favorite thing about cooking with bacon is that you don't even need to oil or grease the pan; just put that bacon in a hot pan and it makes its own grease! (Amazing, I know.) But what excites me even more than that is thinking about the next ingredient I'm going to put in that pan that will soak up all that delicious bacon grease...wowsers.
But let's get back to tonight's dish, shall we?
The recipe is for whole grain linguine tossed with a bacon, onion, and sage sauce and baby spinach. And spinach--to me--is only good prepared a certain way: cooked in a buttery garlic sauce. (Mmmmm, yummy.) So this dish already had two strikes--non-buttery-garlic-sauce spinach and whole grain linguine.
But wait...here comes bacon!
I can honestly say I enjoyed this dish...and solely because of the bacon. Yes, maybe most of my spinach did end up on Mark's plate, but I was able to deal with the whole graininess of the linguine. (Besides, he likes veggies more than me, so it's definitely a win-win.)
Ah, bacon. I hear it crackling in its own grease over a hot stove, and as its aroma fills the air, reaching my nostrils, I think, This is what Heaven must smell like!
[Linguine with Bacon, Baby Spinach and Sage can be found at ronzonihealthyharvest.com]
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