spaghetti and cream sauce recipe

[mollykins]

I have an oportunity to cook for my self tonight, but as always i have to use left overs and odd bits of stuff.

I found some spaghetti but fancy doing something with it that you would normally asociate with tagliatelli (sp) such as in a creamy sauce. I have cream and cheme fraiche to use as well as some herbs and cheese. There is also stuff like onion, bacon, leeks, red pepper, mushrooms and sweetcorn that i can put in it.

so i'll boil the spaghetti but how should i cook the other vegetables (and perhaps bacon) and make a nice sauce, using the creme or creme fraiche if possible, with possibly a bit of cheese?

[redcrx]

cook bacon and any veg you want in it
cook spaghetti
add cream to spaghetti once cooked and drained, then add grated cheese, seasoning and veg

[mollykins]

I found some prawns so i think i'll cook the prawns and veg and add the cream to them, so i can use the juices as a base, will that work?

[redcrx]

veg juice and cream?

only one way to find out i suppose lol

[ummmm]

I thought you wanted healthy food?

[LoftyLottie]

If you can find some left over white wine it does wonder for pasta sauces that include cream and bacon.

I would gently fry the onions and bacon in oil, but don't let the onions brown. Then add the other chopped veg and fry gently. Add half a glass of white wine, salt and black pepper and perhaps some basil and simmer gently. Meanwhile cook the spaghetti and drain. Stir in cream or creme fraiche to the vegetable mix and then pour over the spaghetti and gently stir so it coats the spaghetti. Serve with crusty bread.

Cheese would be optional for me with this.

[LoftyLottie]

The prawns would go well with the bacon and veg, especially if you add the wine.
Veg and pasta are healthy ummm and wine and cream are indulgent. Certainly not junk food! ;o)

[mollykins]

Its low fat cream or something and i did say there was creme fraiche and the cheese is low fat and the prawns are healthier than bacon, plus there isn't much else in, as we go shopping on a saturday so friday and soemtimes thursday is leftovers day.

[ummmm]

I know lofty....but she has been moaning about unhealthy food. Cream is not good.

[mollykins]

Its how my dad makes his sauces, he frys mushrooms, garlic, onion and pepper, takes them out, frys steak in the juices put steak on plate, return first stiff apart from garlic back into pan with all the juices and adds cream and cathedral city.

i fried mine in a fraction of the amount of olive oil he uses, and used creme fraiche with the level dessert spoon of cream that was left and added low fat cheese, and there you go, a healthier version of the sauce my dad does with his steak. Plus i had prawns which are healthier than greasy steak, and i had spaghetti which is healthier than deep fried chips.