Instructions
- Bring a pot of water to the boil with salt.Throw the pasta into the pot, only once the bacon is cooked. The pasta should cook in about same amount of time it takes for the sauce to cook
- Chop the bacon and heat the olive oil in a pan.
Add the bacon to the pan and cook until the it’s almost done.
While the bacon is cooking, finely chop the onion and tomato. - Add the chopped onion to the already cooking sauce, and cook until soft.
Next, add the garlic thyme and tomato. Cook until the tomato starts cook away. - This next step is optional, but it adds great flavour. Cut up the mushrooms and mix them into to the mixture with the butter thrown on top. Cook until the mushrooms brown.
- Now for an easy cheat white sauce. Put the flour into a cup and add a small amount of the cold milk slowly, making sure you stir the flour into a paste. Slowly add the rest of the milk and stir until smooth making sure all the lumps are out the flour. Add to food and mix.Keep mixing, and as the sauce starts to thicken, slowly add the cream and as it thickens more, add the cheese and stir until it melts.
- Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Garnish with sweet basil
Serve immediately.