First she got a pot of water going with a good bit of sea salt.
Then she cut up some bacon,
In the meantime she added cream to the fried bacon and when the pasta was almost done, she added a small package of frozen peas. The trick was to just warm them. Too long or they would have resembled raisins.
She added the juice of a lemon.
Tossed in some grated parmesan. A bit of pepper. And then several ladles of the pasta water to get it all nice and creamy, almost runny. A hungry girl's dream.
That's Lily's thumb ...
and her picture.
The recipe came originally from a Jamie Oliver dish out one of his cook books. No telling which one.
