Angel Hair with Tomato, Bacon, and Onion Sauce

I tried another recipe from my new cookbook this week.  This one seemed simple enough with limited ingredients and not too much prep time.  Or so I thought - ha.

I started with these ingredients:

• olive oil
• one large onion
• 3 strips of bacon
• sea salt
• 6 medium tomatoes

Just look at these beauties...

Can you smell them?  Right through the screen??  Yum, yum, yummy!!  Me and one of my little people (children) LOVE tomatoes - and these were perfect!

However, dicing and seeding 6 tomatoes was not perfect.  In fact, it was very time consuming and slightly annoying.  Just being honest.

And here's my pile of tomato carnage when I was done dicing and seeding.  All six tomatoes.

Then I moved on to slicing the onions.  Easier than the tomatoes, but I was kind of done slicing at this point.  And the baby was screaming.  Good times.

Then guess what was next?

Slicing the bacon into 1/4 inch pieces.  This is where I learned it is impossible to slice raw bacon with this knife.

So I got out this knife.  It did not yield any better results.  I even tried freezing the bacon a little, that didn't help.  I'm open to any tips on how to cut raw bacon, thank you ;)

After what seemed like I was chopping forever, I got to work on my sauce and set up the area - 

Bacon in the pan with 2 tbs olive oil, onions & tomatoes on deck (couldn't resist that, I'm watching the Rangers game while I type this)

Fry bacon until it's light brown, this was the beginning of the frying...

Remove bacon from pan and put onions in the same pan - using that yummy bacon flavor!! Cook onions until soft, about 10 minutes.

Add tomatoes - isn't it pretty??

After cooking for 10 more minutes over low heat, return bacon to sauce and cook 2-3 minutes more.

Use sauce on your favorite pasta.  The recipe recommended bucatini, but since I have no idea what that is, we had angel hair.  Hubby liked it, said it was better than Ragu - so I guess that's a compliment ha!  It was good, but the chopping was a bit tedious - next time I may try throwing it all in the food processor and chopping it up that way - I'll let you know how that turns out when I do!