Recipe - Pasta With Zucchini

One half cup Coarsely chopped pancetta;
see * Note
One fourth cup Olive oil
3 Garlic cloves; chopped fine
1 One half pound Zucchini; cut julienne,
And drained well
One half cup Whipping cream
1/3 cup Freshly grated Parmesan
cheese
Salt; to taste
Freshlyground black pepper;
to taste
1 pound Dry pasta; penne prefered

* Note: American bacon will work, but the flavor is very different.

Heat a large frying pan and saute the pancetta until clear. Remove the meat
and fat from the pan. Drain and discard the fat and set the meat aside. Add
the olive oil to the pan and saute the garlic for just a moment. Add the
welldrained zucchini and saute over high heat until the zucchini is hot
but not mushy. Add the cream and stir. Cook the pasta (I prefer penne with
this dish) and toss the above with the cooked pasta, adding the pancetta,
cheese and salt and pepper to taste. This recipe serves 6 as a dinner
course or 8 as a pasta course.

Comments: This dish is not supposed to save you from the neighbors who will
leave that 18pound zucchini on your porch. You will not need that much for
this recipe. However, during the winter you will begin to long for this
dish once you have tried it and once zucchini has risen high in cost. This
is all a Roman plot!

Recipe Source: THE FRUGAL GOURMET by Jeff Smith From the 04171991 issue
The Springfield UnionNews

Formatted for MasterCook by Joe Comiskey, aka MR MAD jpmd44a@prodigy.com
~or MADSQUAD@prodigy.net

10131995

Recipe by: Jeff Smith

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