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.
My grandma used to make “grenadier march”, it was simple and cheap meal from her childhood, meaning (pre-)WW2.
Baked 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).
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
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!
Tortilla de patatas (spanish potato omelet) sandwiches are delicious! I could eat those two starches every day.
potato’s
Why the apostrophe?
The “and noodles” belong to the potato.
“Potato is and noodles” of course.
Don’t forget rice a roni. Pasta and rice. I’ve heard some even consider this a treat.
In San Francisco?
It was some Francisco, yeah.
I would like to introduce you to Guiso de Fideos:
A very traditional Argentinian food made with potatoes, noodles and other ingredients.
I would agree that just potatoes and noodles is way too much carb if that’s the only food you’re eating, but if you add other things or have it as a side dish it could work. Gnocchi are potato+flour and they’re not more starchy than other pasta, it’s all about the proportions with everything else.
Related: May I introduce you to the Japanese abomination known as “Yakisoba Pan?” It’s a fried noodle sandwich. Carbs with fried carbs on top. I honestly can’t believe America didn’t create this.
Have you heard of Torpasta?
I have not. That looks good.
I can’t believe I’ve never even seen this available here. I’d try one.
A very common Indian daily meal is rotis (flatbreads) with thinly sliced, heavily sliced fried potatoes. Other meals include lentils (carb heavy) + rotis + rice. I’ve even had rotis + wheat & meat porridge. Carbmaxxing is a proud Indian tradition.
Oh noo, all that starch taste, inundating my starch receptors, leaving my mouth all starchy…
Pasta e patate is an Italian pasta dish with potatoes and it is delicious!
Listen to mama. Mama is right.
Nah. Listen to your taste buds. If you like it, you like it.
If I listened to my taste buds, I’d end up eating only ultra processed junk food and diabetic by age 22.
Okay, well, within reason. Control man! Control!
“Within reason”, two startches is too much and mama is right.
There’s some hikers and campers that like to make a thing called a ramen bomb. Just instant noodle with instant potatoes. It works, for some.
I put potats in my ramen!
No sauce is fixing what you’re getting at Olive Garden.
