Girl, this would make Julia Childs proud! Wow, what a dish, the visual you have just provided is priceless. I can just imagine you and CW in the kitchen whipping up this gourmet meal. 5 eggs! yikes, I would have been terrified too, lol I wish I could have been at the table to enjoy this meal. :) Thank you! I'll have to try this one!
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If you're serious about trying this, start with your eggs and cream as close to room temperature as possible so you don't chill the pasta too quickly before the cheese has a chance to melt -- and so the heat from the pasta can do the work of cooking the eggs while still not "scrambling" them. This really was easy once I had all the ingredients assembled and found the courage to try it. Recipes I consulted said it would be -- but I've been lied to before.
No kidding though, this really is simple -- and with enough spice to suit your taste is is truly delicious. You can also make it with different kinds of bacon-y meat -- like pancetta, finely chopped ham, etc. Of course, with a lot of different flavors of bacon available, you can get plenty of variety that way. I'm just grateful -- for all that I tease you about it -- that I don't have some of the food / allergy issues you have to accommodate. We can try almost anything I have the inspiration to attempt. I am a pretty good cook and I enjoy my own cooking immensely -- especially when things go right!!
Some of the best meals I've made are ones where I consulted my ethnic preferences for the night, looked at my available ingredients ... and then just decided to wing it. That's kind of a shame because when it succeeds -- and @catweasel is raving about how good it is, I have to tell him, "Well, enjoy it while it lasts, because you'll never have it again."
The first time I tried chicken tikka masala, I was licking the sauce off the spoon like it was a lollipop. I'm not real sure what "Indian food" is really supposed to taste like -- and The Weasel is no help here whatsoever. He knows what he likes -- and that's the extent of it. I've made some interesting variations of the original since then, but none comes as close (at least in my memory) as the first attempt to being just superb. I do keep trying though. We haven't tossed out anything yet. And my health seems to really prosper from some of the spices those recipes use. I've become such an advocate of using food as medicine. It just feels right.