Oct 13, 2016 in healthy comfort food, healthy eating, gluten free dinners, gluten free, casseroles, pasta, italian, sauces, baked, cauliflower. Read the original on: Food Fanatic
You know what someone told me?
âPasta with REAL noodles is going to come back in style this year.â
Wait. WHAT.
!!!!!!!
When did a steaming hot pot of carby-delicious noodles covered in rich, creamy-dreamy sauce of love and general deliciousness ever go OUT OF STYLE? I mean? Gluten Free Chicken Alfredo basically RUNS THORUGH MY VEINS.
Clearly, I live under a rock. In this case, I am VRY VRY OKAY WIDDAT.
Also, I state ârealâ noodles, not because some faux-imposter-wanna-be-noodle has been parading itself around. Iâm talking about ârealâ noodles that arenât spiralizedâ¦which, letâs be clear, really are not noodles at all. No matter HOW MUCH you use your imagination.
No spiralized Sweet Potato Coconut Curry and definitely no Mexican zucchini lasagna, you hear?
No veggies. Just good olâ down-home, country-lovinâ carbs.
Whatever that means.
What Iâm really just trying to say is BRING ON THE SWEATPANTS.
You get it. And you feel the same way. Donât lie.
Newsflash: I may have stated that the doom of wearing sweatpants is imminent in your life, this comfort-food-<3<3<3ing season, but I also sort of lied to you. This Cauliflower Alfredo Penne Carbonara Bake?
No sweat/stretchy/over-voluminous pants-wearing REQUIRED.
Aaaaand, it has vegetables. But they arenât a faux-noodle, so I decided it doesnât count. My bowl of comfort and love and creamy-pasta JOY. My rules.
The tradish version of a penne carbonara is basically a pot of noodles+cheese+bacon+egg yolks. Which, is not really a bad thing to have inside your tummy at ANY POINT IN YOUR LIFE EVER butâ¦it does require some wiggle room in the pants department, if your pickinâ up what I am puttinâ down.
So, In VRYVRYVRY predictable Taylor style, I de-cheese-and-dairy-fied it by using the one thing that I will continue to use forever and ever the end, even if it falls out of the ultra-trendy-hip category of food: cauliflower Alfredo.
Creamy pureed cauliflower + sweet, tender peas + rich egg yolk s+ garlicky onions + salty pieces of crispy bacon.
Liiiiiiike, thassss what I am talkinâ ABOUT.
Also: real bacon friends. Donât even think about doing a turkey bacon-secret swap. Weâre already taking this carbonara from a 12 to a NONE on the scale of how-many-pairs-of-sweat-pants-do-I-need-to-purchase-in-order-to-eat-this-pasta-on-a-regular-basis.
Do it for the salty, crispy CRUNCH and the necessity of cooking the onion in bacon fat.
Is it just me or does that sentence bring music to your ears? I wanna bacon-fat-onion EVERY OTHER RECIPE that ever comes from my kitchen.
Youâll understand soon enough.
I have a feeling that MANY of you are somehow looking past the creamy-hidden-veggies that actually taste good, PAST the comforting-carbs-with-REAL-NUTRITION AND somehow even past the smoky chunks of salty bacon and all you can think about is EGG YOLK IN MY PASTA? NO THANK YOU. NOT COOL WIDDAT.
Which is why I baked it for you. Which, you really donât NEED to do. When you whisk your luscious, velvety-smooth vibrant-yellow egg yolk into the warm noodles, it gets enough heat to be safe to eat.
But, if youâre still feeling bad-raw-egg juju coming on, I oven-ed (is that a verb?) it for you.
Comfy carbs. Tasty veggies. Baconâ¦AND preventing you from worrying about near-death-food-experiences?
I GOT YO BACK.
And Y-O-U get to check âhealthy carb loadâ off your bucket list.
I know it was on there.
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