Chicken pasta carbonara

Pasta and macaroni Italian cuisine

Pasta carbonara is one of my go-to dishes when I need to unexpectedly make dinner. Say, for a returning crowd of college students who arrive at a time of day when you think they can't possibly be hungry, but in fact they ARE. Starving. And since I am lucky enough to know a whole passel of starving college students, I can practically make pasta carbonara in my sleep. So I decided it was time to up my game, pasta carbonara-wise, and all it took to take it from good to pretty dang great was some shredded chicken and a few scallions....and it was a whole new taste sensation!