The disagreement started once we saw all those new Olive Garden commercials doing it. Her point is that nothing is going to taste great with the same thing used twice in a dish. I say differently. Like if you add a good Italian sauce or something and use rigatoni noddles.
just use less of both?
May I present a Scottish delicacy - the macaroni cheese pie.
As someone else said: Pierogi!
Gnocchi is pasta made with potatoes.
Not pasta but I’ve put potatoes and rosemary and swiss cheese on a pizza and it was amazing.
Little cubes of sweet potato in cold pasta salad is good too.
I think you are more right, but I would not, like, mix spaghetti into mashed potatoes.
More combined starches: Verheiratete (German, something like “married couple”) are a kind of dumplings with potatoes together with diced fried bacon. One of my favourite local foods.
There’s a traditional dish in Switzerland combining pasta, potatoes, apple sauce, cheese and some other stuff to a great meal reminding me of mac and cheese but elevated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Älplermagronen
It’s great!
The Swiss sometimes like to put potatoes in their pasta. Me, I agree with your mum.
Tortilla de patatas (spanish potato omelet) sandwiches are delicious! I could eat those two starches every day.
Trofie* al pesto is most properly made with string beans and potatoes and is delicious if the pesto is good and fresh.
*a pasta shape
Pierogis are literally pasta stuffed with potatoes. And they are fucking awesome.
Hell, you can make pasta out of potato.
But I still kinda agree with your mom about the starches thing when it comes to sides. I wouldn’t serve corn and mashed potatoes. Only one is needed.
The only thing better than corn and mashed potatoes is corn in your mashed potatoes
Ew… Crunchy mashed potatoes? 🤢
As a kiddo, a cheeseburger, mac & cheese, and french fries was a regular summer dinner. That’s a threefer.
My grandma used to make “grenadier march”, it was simple and cheap meal from her childhood, meaning (pre-)WW2.
Boiled potatoes and flat egg noodles roasted with onion, bits of speck (bacon) and sweet paprika. Nothing more. I wasn’t really fan of the meal, but I understand where it came from and what it had to achieve (fill empty stomach for very cheap and mainly home grown ingredients).
Pasta and potatoes are not the same thing, but you can cook and eat them together. Just cut the potatoes into chunks and add them to the water before you boil it, then add the pasta after it is boiling, then they should be finished cooking around the same time (potatoes need a little more time to cook than pasta).
No sauce is fixing what you’re getting at Olive Garden.
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You are both right. Arguing for completely unrelated things. Potatoes with pasta is indeed way too much starch for a healthy diet, if you are eating it on the regular and doubling your ingestion of carbs and starch. But it has nothing to do with taste, they taste fine together, as the many fine recipes and dishes everyone else have posted. They will make you bloaty though, the best is to regulate the portions back to a recommended protein/fibre/carb proportion, and you won’t even notice.
