Today I am pleased to bring you an exciting and all new section on my website!  This new category will be called restaurant recipes, where I try a dish at a great local Bermuda eatery, and using my excellent taste buds; I will reverse engineer the recipe and present it here for your at-home enjoyment!!  Imagine, sitting at home reminiscing on your beautiful honeymoon in Bermuda, eating at that wonderful restaurant.  Now you can take that experience home!

First up-

La Trattoria’s Spaghetti alla carbonara

You guys are in for a real treat here!  Spaghetti alla carbonara – pasta in the style of the coal miner’s wife – is a staple in Italy.  A real Italian classic. Let’s get started

This dish classically requires pancetta, but for a very special Trattoria twist, go to the supermarket and grab any old packet of thin sliced bacon.  Nothing special here, the cheaper the better.  This will give you that authentic taste; you will think you are eating inside the restaurant!!

Now take that bacon you got, and cut it into strips, put it into a sauté pan and cook it for about 30 seconds each side.  Make sure it stays mostly raw – you want that deliciously unappetizing chewiness of undercooked bacon.  Now go in the refrigerator, and grab some leftover spaghetti.  Something you cooked yesterday that is kind of all starched together. Don’t worry about that cause once you get it in the pan, it will break up.  Ok throw this into the sauté pan with the barely cooked bacon and coat it.  In a separate cup, mix one egg, 2 cups of cream, and a tablespoon of Kraft parmesan in the plastic green container.  Dump this into the sauté pan.  Make sure it is extra hot now so that if some egg hits the pan it gets nice and scrambled.

Take it off the heat and put it in a to-go container!   Wow!  It’s THAT EASY!  You can have authentic food from La Trattoria restaurant at home!  Whatever you do, DO NOT put parsley on this dish!  Why would you ruin it with green stuff??  Also, if your guests inquire about the bacon in the dish, act really confused.  Say “bacon? I don’t know…bacon? What’s this bacon you speak of?”  Insist that it is Pancetta and make sure you say it like this: pan-cheh'-tuh.  This will give your guests that true feeling like they are actually at this restaurant.

--EDIT-- April 2nd --

This post is half April fools joke, half bad review of the restaurant.  To be fair however, we do go there for lunch often because it is convenient and delicious (if you order the right thing).  Also the pizza is pretty good.  One Sunday after sleeping a little late and not having any food in the house, I suddenly had the craving for carbonara and what I got was pasta in cream sauce with half cooked bacon.  That’s what prompted me to write this.  Also the fact that they take themselves really seriously as Italian with accents and if you pronounce something wrong, they act like they have no idea what you are saying, but then when you get the food, it is just the usual Italian American fare you would find at an olive garden.  Please don’t ban me for life La Trattoria.