Cream Cheese, Crispy Bacon and Garlic Sauce

• 6 rashers of bacon, smoked or unsmoked (I prefer smoked myself)
• ¾ lb/340 g cream

Cook the bacon till crisp, then drain and cool it on kitchen paper, and break it into small bits.

Put the cream cheese into a food processor or liquidizer with the chopped garlic and whiz till smooth, gradually adding the milk till you have a thick cream. Whiz in the broken-up bacon and chopped parsley, then put the cream cheese and bacon mixture into a serving bowl. You can make this s