Pasta e Patate (pasta with potaoes)

Here is another simple dish that costs little. Pasta and potatoes, it's almost like when you boil potatoes to prepare them for mashing, only difference is that they are diced then add diced tomatoes and garlic. Thats it and it gets served with pasta.

• Potatoes 2 large, 3 medium,diced, up to you based on how many you will feed.
• 3 medium tomatoes, diced 
• Pasta larger type pasta; doesn't go well with spaghetti type.
• olive oil
• salt, pepper, garlic or onion powder, grated cheese.

Drizzle some olive oil in the bottom of a medium saucepan.
Add 2 large potatoes diced up.

3 medium tomatoes diced up.

Cover with water.

Add tomatoes, add a bit of water because you want them to be covered at all times.
Add salt and pepper to taste and also some garlic powder or onion powder if you prefer. Keep checking water, dont want to get too low.



Cook any type of larger stout pasta (not good with spaghetti type) in salted water. Drain and mix with the potatoes and serve. You can also add a sprinkling of grated cheese if you wish.

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Here in this photo I had some left over potato 'chowder' so I went ahead and blended it all together, and got a mashed potato 'chowder' where I mixed in some grated cheese. This gets served with slices of toasted french bread, great as an appetizer, or just something to munch on.



**Note-- for those cold nights add some hot pepper powder and see how it warms you up.

Buon Appetito!!