Name: Easy Creamy Italian Pasta (with bacon, mushrooms, and cherry tomato)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 8 ounces dry penne pasta; 8 slices bacon; 8 ounces baby bella mushrooms, sliced; 1/2 cup evaporated milk; 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese; 1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) Italian dressing seasoning packet; 10-15 cherry tomatoes, halved

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This Easy Creamy Italian Pasta is as cozy and familiar as my favorite cardigan. You’ll want to eat it all fall and winter long.

You can make this Easy Creamy Italian Pasta in less than 30 minutes

This past weekend we finally finished up our bedroom remodel and moved all of our clothes over into our new closets. Can I just tell you how amazing it is to have extra closet space? This is a novelty to me. I could spend hours just sliding the clothes back and forth on the rod and marveling at how freely they move.

The process of transferring all of your clothes into a new space can be very revealing. It was somewhere between trip five and nine that I realized I have a serious cardigan problem. If I could, I would have a cardigan in every sleeve length, every color, with buttons and without, v-neck, crew neck, striped, polka dotted, and chevroned. I.love.cardigans. I don’t have a ton of clothes, but probably at least half of them are cardigans. After moving all my clothes, I told the Mr. to never let me buy another cardigan. I figure that plan will last until the next time I go to Target.

This Creamy Italian Pasta is so easy to make and loaded with bacon, mushrooms, and tomatoes!

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Four Ingredient Creamy Parmesan Pasta

The good news is, the cooler weather means I have plenty of opportunities to break out my cardigan collection. I’m reveling in the cozy, creamy, comforty goodness of this season, and this Creamy Italian Pasta fits right in.

This pasta recipe has been in our family for years, and it makes frequent appearances at family gatherings. The basics for this recipe involve only four simple ingredients: penne pasta, evaporated milk, Parmesan cheese, and an Italian seasoning packet.

I don’t use a lot of seasoning packets in my cooking, but this pasta is an exception. It’s what gives it its unique flavor, and it just wouldn’t be Creamy Italian Pasta without it.

This Easy Creamy Italian Pasta can be made in under 30 minutes and customized to fit your tastes!

Variations and Additions to Creamy Italian Pasta

The pasta is delicious with just those four simple ingredients, but we usually like to dress it up with whatever odds and ends we have on hand.

This bowl has graciously accepted our leftovers for years, incorporating everything from crab to Italian Dressing Chicken to spinach to shrimp into its creamy embrace.

But my favorite combo, and the one I find myself returning to, is this one with crispy oven baked bacon, mushrooms, and sliced cherry tomatoes.

It’s cozy, simple, satisfying comfort food you can make in 30 minutes flat. So slip into your favorite cardigan, grab some forgotten veggies, and whip up your own bowl of creamy Italian pasta!

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