Sauce

Previously, I wrote about my pasta dish and how it needed a good sauce. I found one. It's a carbonara. Super simple.

Carbonara Sauce
2 Eggs
Parmesan cheese (grated to taste)
Pepper

In a bowl, beat the eggs and add the cheese and pepper. Mix. Once the pasta is cooked, drain it, then toss the egg mixture in. Mix, but don't let the egg scramble. Don't be concerned about raw egg--the heat from the pasta cooks the egg so that you won't get sick. I used this sauce tonight for a simple pasta dish of tortellini, broccoli, peas, and spinach. I cooked the tortellini, broccoli, and peas together in the same pot, drained it, threw in the spinach, added the sauce, and mixed. The whole thing took about 20 minutes. A perfect dinner for an exciting Friday night of studying for finals.

N.B. Generally a carbonara sauce has pancetta mixed into the pasta. If you don't have pancetta, you can use bacon. I didn't have either, and it turned out fine.