Bow tie pasta loaded with soft bacon, tender chicken, sliced grape tomato in a light garlic and onion sauce that comes together fast, with melted brie. All the flavors meld together to make this pasta so delish!

We LOVE to camp. This last summer we have spent a lot of time in the mountains, I can tell you it is so good for the soul! Sleeping outdoors next to a stream and being in the fresh air is so amazing!

I don’t know about you, I think eating in the mountains… oh. my. wonderful. Is it me or do you fellow campers think that when you’re camping the food just tastes better too!?

I’m telling you…the mountains…the best!

Anyway, after getting home from camping I usually have a cooler with some thawed out food that has to be cooked. I am a over packer. (is that even a word?) I ALWAYS plan a menu, but take extra, I mean heck, what if we get stranded in the mountains, I definitely don’t want to starve!

This particular trip I had, bacon and chicken that needed to be cooked, brie and grape tomatoes that had to be eaten….so this yumminess was invented!

First let’s talk bacon!

Bacon In The Oven

This isn’t something I invented, but whoever did, seriously genious! It is the only way I cook bacon at home. It’s super easy and no greasy, splattery mess. So much better than doing it on the stovetop.

Put slices of bacon on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or foil. OR put a cooling rack on the cookie sheet and bacon on top and it wont bake in it’s own grease. I just do foil or parchement paper because it’s easier cleanup.

Put the bacon in the cold oven on 400 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes. Longer if you like your bacon more crisp. If you use the parchment paper or foil, drain bacon on a plate that has papertowel to absorb the grease. That’s it!

Ingredients

1 box bow tie pasta
round of brie
2 handfuls of grape tomatoes, sliced
1 white onion,diced/sliced
2 cloves garlic, diced
1/4 c. olive oil
6 slices bacon
2 chicken breasts

Brie, couple handfuls of the tomatoes that have become a little wrinkled (but that doesn’t matter they softened and blended amazingly!) freshly diced garlic cloves, diced/sliced onion and olive oil.

While bacon is in the oven, boil your pasta. Slice your chicken breast and in a little olive oil cook your chicken. Add some salt and pepper to taste.

Then I cut the waxy part off the brie and just pinched it with my fingers instead of cutting it. (Its easier with a soft cheese.) Cut the grape tomatoes in half.

In a heated pan, I use a paella pan, which is the best! Add the olive oil, garlic, and onion. Cook over med, high heat, the garlic and onion flavor the olive oil which is the “sauce” be sure you DO NOT burn it.

Next add boiled pasta. Completely coat the pasta in the sauce.

Add in brie cheese. Stir.

You should have cheesy coated pasta. YUM!

When the bacon is finished, cut it into bite size pieces and add it to the pasta along with the tomato and chicken.

AND this is the end result.

Heat through and enjoy!