I’m very excited to announce to you that today marks the appearance of my first-ever guest blogger post, which is making its debut over on Yummly’s fantastic blog – check it out!
I’ve read enough cookbook recipes, articles, and blog posts decrying the use of heavy cream in spaghetti alla carbonara to be deterred staunchly from including it in my recipe’s ingredient list. While this recipe steers clear of cream (which, as I’ve learned, plays no part in the most traditional of versions), I’m afraid it’s still hardly your classic carbonara – this carbonara has let its hair down and gone a bit wild! In addition to cooking the bacon with a bit of wine, the pasta itself is boiled in a combination of water and wine, similar to the method of making drunken spaghetti. The tomatoes, peas, and basil add some pops of color, and the walnuts lend the pasta a subtle yet rich crunch. Once you’ve tasted drunken spaghetti alla carbonara, you may never look at traditional carbonara in the same way again!
Now that I’ve hopefully enticed your taste buds with some tantalizing pictures, go check out the full recipe over at Yummly, and then get cooking!
Congrats on the guest blog post! I went over to the site and your post is on the main page!! That’s SO COOL!!!
PS Still can’t say thank you enough for the cupcakes you sent over! Just posted a few photos on my blog earlier tonight – when you get the chance you should take a look! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thanks!! It was pretty exciting to see my work on another blog 🙂
You’re most welcome for the cupcakes – the photos are SO beautiful (teach me your photography magic please?!)!
Love these beautiful and bright photos! They are awesome 🙂 And I love anything with lots of pasta 🙂
Thanks so much! And yes, there’s something so comforting about a big bowl of pasta, right?!
We made this and it was very tasty. We were planning on an intimate dinner for four but at the last minute we had seven so we increased everything by 1/2 and it was fine.
Glad to hear it!!
Drunken spaghetti… I’ve never heard of that… I can’t believe that I’ve never heard of that. It is simply genius! I have to go follow that recipe… it looks so delicious!! Yum!! Congrats on the guest post! <3
Oh you should definitely give this a try – cooking the noodles in wine gives them SO much flavor! It’s one of my boyfriend’s favorites, and he actually just made this for dinner for us last week!
I’m on board with almost anything involving wine. This one is especially great 🙂 Can’t wait to make it again!
Now that you mention it, I realize that I haven’t made this in months! Time for that to change soon…