Emergency Bacon Stir Fry

Okay, everyone was busy this weekend and we weren't actually going to do the bacon thing. That was before my car got snowed into the back alley and I was unable to complete my errands, one of which was 'go to grocery store.' So I ended up throwing together a meal from random bits and scraps in my kitchen. It was based on the bacon herb pasta I made last year, but several ingredients were fudged from necessity.

EMERGENCY BACON STIR FRY

5 strips bacon (shredded in mid-sized pieces)
1/4 white onion (this was all the onion I had, people)
1/2 C frozen corn
1 can white kidney beans, drained
1/3 C brazil nuts
1/2 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
2 T butter
1 tsp crushed garlic
dash lemon juice
salt
pepper
lemon pepper
herbes de provence
1/4 C grated parmesan
pasta of your choice (I used peppercorn fettuccine)

Fry up bacon. Remove from pan, saving drippings. Add butter and garlic to drippings, then add kidney beans and brazil nuts. Season (salt, pepper, lemon pepper, herbes de provence, lemon juice) to taste. Add onions after a few minutes. Keep on fryin'. Reserve corn and tomato until a few minutes before you are finished cooking; add the bacon back in.



Turn off heat; add cooked pasta and parmesan, and stir everything together.



This was really surprisingly good.