I am loving being in The Secret Recipe Club, as I have met so many bloggers! The time difference is the only thing that does not work well for me – the afternoon’s for me are busy, and so I only get to the posts the day after they are published. This month my assigned blog is Good Thymes and Good Food. Rachel is originally from Florida (where some of my family live) and she now lives in Atlanta. I have been to the airport there countless of times, but have never been out of the airport as I have always been in transit. Rachel is a stay at home mom – how blessed her son is 🙂 I could not resist her creamy pasta with beef recipe.
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As I also participate in Presto Pasta Nights and my draft folder is empty of pasta recipes, I chose the first pasta recipe I found on the blog, Creamy Pasta With Beef, Sun Dried Tomatoes And Mushrooms. It had so many of my favourite ingredients in the recipe, I knew it would be great, even before I tried it. I chose not to do a holiday recipe, as that is the farthest thing on my mind right now. This is the busiest time of the year for me work wise. I made a little extra for the freezer – there may be a night soon that I don’t have time to cook!
Creamy Pasta
Ingredients
- 4 rashers streaky bacon
- 1 onion, peeled and chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
- 250 g ground beef
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- 120 g mushrooms, chopped
- 60 mls sun dried tomatoes, chopped
- 15 g butter
- 30 mls olive oil
- 45 mls flour
- 375 mls chicken stock
- 80 mls cream
- 200 g dried pasta of your choice
- 125 mls frozen peas
- 125 mls grated Parmesan
Method
- add the bacon to a frying pan over a medium heat and cook until crisp
- remove from the pan and chop
- sauté the onions and the garlic until soft
- add the beef and brown
- season and add the mushrooms and cook until soft
- add the sundried tomatoes and the bacon and leave to simmer
- in a separate saucepan melt the butter in the with the olive oil over a low heat
- add the flour and cook for at least 30 seconds
- add the stock while whisking the whole time
- whisk in the cream
- add 1 cup of the sauce to the meat and leave to simmer for 20 minutes while you bring your pasta water to the boil
- cook the pasta as per the package instructions
- add the peas and heat through
- add more sauce to your liking
- add the Parmesan and allow the cheese to melt
- loosen the sauce with the pasta water before tossing in your cooked pasta
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I am submitting this recipe to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Rachel who blogs over at The Crispy Cook
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This looks delicious. We are a pasta loving family, so I’m always looking for new recipes to enjoy!
hope it ticks all the boxes 🙂
Hi Tandy,
Your Creamy Pasta look’s delicious we would really enjoy this dish. It is fun cooking with you at the SRC, have a great day!
Miz Helen
thank you Miz Helen, hope your day is awesome as well 🙂
Looks delicious! It’s not often you see a creamy sauce with ground beef – I know I would love this!
the left overs were well used so there is another recipe coming 🙂
What a great use of mince Tandy. Looks delicious.
🙂 Mandy
this is worth repeating Mandy 🙂
This reminds me of a dish my mom made for us when we were kids. Yummmm. I wish I had some right now on this rainy winter day in San Diego
it is so great when a dish reminds you of your childhood 🙂
Looks great. I don’t think I would have thought to put this together, but I think it’d be tasty. I’ll have to try it out.
please let me know if you do Colleen 🙂
I”m so glad that you enjoyed this! I haven’t made it in awhile but I do remember absolutely loving it!
thanks Rachel, it was a great recipe and I used the mince for lasagna a few night ago and it was fantastic 🙂
Yum. That’s such a unique combination of ingredients for the sauce. Sounds tasty! Thanks for sharing.
thanks for the visit Kristi, it was tasty indeed 🙂
I hear you – I can tell this is going to be a tasty recipe for sure! Love all the yummy ingredients. I hope you’ll stop by to visit my SRC reveal – Ganache Filled Snowflake Cookies.
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those cookies sound divine – and thanks for the visit! This was a very tasty recipe 🙂
k
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Love it.
thanks Greg 🙂
Looks really delicious! Good call making a pasta so you can use the blog post again. Very productive!
time is short at this stage of the year! thanks for the visit 🙂
That sounds like it has such a great flavor. I have a weakness for pasta with lots of sauce.
me too Kristen 🙂
This looks super yummy!
thanks so much for the visit 🙂
Sounds wonderful… love pasta with anything!
me too Karen 🙂
This sounds so comforting; I can always find comfort in a big bowl of pasta!
me too! I could eat pasta every night actually 🙂
What a yummy recipe!!! I love the ingredients, especially the sundried tomatoes!
thanks Pink, Dave is not a huge fan of sundried tomatoes so I seldom use them 🙂
Looks great! 🙂
thanks Jen 🙂
This pasta dish looks delicious, like the idea of sun dried tomatoes all in a creamy sauce.
Hope you have a wonderful week ahead Tandy 🙂
thank you Juliana, may your week be amazing as well 🙂
Looks delish, Tandy, and a little reminiscent of stroganoff! 🙂
thanks Celia 🙂
I love the sun dried tomatoes in this. It sounds amazing!
I used the left overs for a lasagna dish and it was fantastic 🙂
this looks like pure comfort food! fab recipe to share on SRC!
it was comfort food indeed Patsy 🙂
Glad you’re having a good time in the recipe club. What a great idea. And love the look of your pasta. I think I’ll cook pasta tonight!
thanks so much – let me know if you give this recipe a try 🙂
I love this creamy ground beef version and it has bacon too! I can’t wait to switch up to this from my basic ground beef with peas!!! Great find Tandy!
thanks Trisha, anything with bacon and peas is a great find for me 🙂
Excellent alternative for the standby spagbol 🙂
and it really freezes well 🙂
This Creamy Pasta with Beef recipe looks absolutely amazing. I can totally see me trying this out on a snowy day. Thanks for sharing this recipe with us
thanks for the visit Kay, a snowy day is perfect for pasta 🙂
MMMMMMM,…what an appetizing, creamy pasta dish! Yum! 😉
Great flavours in here too! 🙂
thanks Sophie 🙂
I love a meal that provides extras for freezer. This looks great.
I love meals that leave some for the freezer. This looks great.
and it froze well! Thanks for the visit Alli 🙂
Always wonderful when you share a dish with Presto Pasta Nights. This one will be high on my list of meals to prepare for those over the top busy days ahead.
and you can freeze this Ruth for the night’s you don’t feel like cooking 🙂
Thanks for the recipe., Tandy.I have all the ingredients to hand, so will make this tonight. Whenever I see mushrooms in a recipe, I get excited. 😉
please let me know what you think!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe Tandy. I like the fact that it has the pasta, the meat and vegetables all in one , making it an easy and delicious option for the whole family!
for sure! Thanks for the visit Asmita 🙂
Looks very tasty Tandy!
Thanks Brydie 🙂
Yum yum and YUM! Love the combination of ingredients, and I’m a huge pasta fan. 🙂
thanks Caroline, me too 🙂
I love the combination of ingredients! and I have been reading posts about the secret recipe club everywhere…I really should join …sounds like loads of fun
it is a lot of fun – thanks for the visit Sawsan 🙂
Mushrooms and Pasta = Winning Dish!
Thanks – it was indeed a winner 🙂