Creamy Bacon Carbanara

I haven't done a recipe in a while, so I thought I'd do one.  This is Ryan's new favorite meal.  We both really like fettuccine alfredo, but for some reason it just never turns out like I want it to.  Like every 3rd or 4th try it's really good, and every other time it's lumpy and weird.  This on the other hand is perfect every time.  It is delicious and so easy!  I can usually make it in like 15-20 minutes if I have everything together and the kids don't start screaming.  It looks and tastes way fancier than it should for how easy it is.  I've had a few people ask for this recipe so I'm just going to post it on here for them to find, and for anyone else that wants to try out a new easy dinner recipe.

Creamy Bacon Carbanara

Sauce
2 eggs
¼ cup Milk or Heavy Cream
⅓ cup Parmesan
Fresh diced Parsley or dried flakes
¼ tsp. Salt

⅓ lb. bacon, fried crisp
½ lb. chicken, cut up and sauteed
½ lb. Pasta

Start out by putting a large pot of water to boil for the pasta.  I like to use linguine, but you can use pretty much whatever you want.  Now, on to the bacon...I like to chop up the bacon before cooking.  It's easier to cook, and then you don't have to chop it up after.  Set the bacon aside and keep the grease in the pan.

Chop up the chicken, and then fry up in the bacon grease with salt and pepper.  When it's done, set it aside with the bacon.

Mix all the ingredients for the sauce.  I usually just do it in a measuring cup like this.  I like it best when we have heavy cream, but I use regular milk in this all the time, and it turns out just fine.  I actually add a little more heavy cream when I use that, because I like it to be saucy.  I stick with the 1/4 cup, when I use regular milk.

Once the pasta is all done, strain and put back in the pan.  You can set aside some of the boiling pasta water to use to temper the egg sauce, but I usually don't worry about it and it turns out fine.  Add the sauce to the pasta while it's still hot, stirring vigorously while you add it so that the mixture doesn't stay in one place for too long so the eggs don't cook.  If you're worried about raw eggs, you can turn the burner on and cook on low heat for a bit.  Since the pasta is hot when I add the eggs, I usually don't worry about it, but I'm just kinda lazy.

Once that's all done add the bacon and chicken.  You can also add some sauteed onions or mushrooms, but Ryan likes it best when it's simple.

Now just serve it up and eat.  You can sprinkle some extra Parmesan cheese on top.  We like to have a nice cesar salad and some garlic bread with this.  I hope you guys like it.