Carbonara a la Mom

Bacon, garlic, red pepper flakes: the good stuff.

Growing up, I always loved my mom's Carbonara pasta. I was craving some comfort food so I asked her for her recipe! 

Ingredients:

-bacon or pancetta

-eggs

-parmesean cheese

-pasta

-red pepper flakes

-garlic

-olive oil

Instructions:

"Ok, so you're going to chop up the bacon into small pieces and then you're going to render it. This means you're going to cook it really slowly in the olive oil. Then, add the garlic and red pepper flakes and right when the garlic starts to brown you need to turn it off. In the meantime, cook your pasta and don't forget to reserve about 2/3 of a cup of cooking water for the sauce. Also at this time mix together two eggs and a cup of parmesean. Then when the pasta is done, toss in the bacon mixture, and then very quickly toss in the egg mixture and cooking water."

Egg mixture: gross. 

Mom would be proud!!