Leftover Christmas ham pasta carbonara

I mentioned last week that I had bought a 5kg leg of smoked ham.  We had 1.5kg leftover so I used some of it to make carbonara tonight.

Ingredients:

• 400g pasta
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups diced/shredded ham (you could use leftover turkey)
• 200g mushrooms, quartered
• 300mL thickened cream
• 50mL water
• big squirt lemon juice
• 3 tablespoon pine nuts
• 3 heaped teapoons crushed garlic
• shaved parmesan
• bunch continental parsley
• large pinch salt, pepper and sugar

Feeds 4

What to do:

1. Boil the pasta
2. Mix eggs, cream, water, some shaved parmesan, lemon juice, salt, sugar and pepper together and set aside
3. In a large frypan cook ham, pine nuts, garlic and mushrooms for about 5 mins
   
   
4. Once the pasta's cooked, drain and add to the cream mixture
5. Then add ham to this and mix continuously for a few mins
6. Serve with more parmesan, chopped parsley, salt and pepper