Crayfish and bacon pasta with feta
Used to make this one fairly frequently a few years ago; I don't repeat the experience much these days as it tends to turn you into a fat fecker.

1. Cook some pasta. I love tortellini - best of all the pasta shapes;

2. Fry up some lardons, picking through them beforehand to remove all those that don't contain any actual bacon, to make the recipe less fatty (even though this is arguably the equivalent of ordering a Diet Coke with a supersize Big Mac Meal);

3. Remove the lardons, drain and keep to one side. Place one block of feta (approx. 200g) in the pan and add one small carton of 15% fat cream. Heat until the feta has melted fully and you have a creamy (and amazingly salty) sauce.

4. Add a stupendous quantity of hot paprika.

5. Drain the pasta, replace in saucepan and add the feta sauce, the lardons and one small packet of crayfish tails. Heat through without boiling, add black pepper and serve.
( .Yeti., Fri 29 Jun 2012, 7:42, Reply)