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Pasta, Potatoes, and Sausages
If my grandmother were alive today, she would be amazed that the Cookie Lady has finally mixed her favorite food, potatoes with pasta. She did it as a young wife when she made dinner for a family of nine. Bubba (as we called her) cooked “lox pieces”, onions, potatoes and skinny noodles to make a soupy dinner that cost almost nothing and made everyone happy.

Bubba never would have used bacon or sausages, but Cookie Lady is thrilled with what started as just another trip to Costco.

Please read the entire recipe BEFORE you start!

Prepare the dish in a single pan

Combine the following ingredients:

  • ¼ lb. prosciutto, pancetta or regular bacon, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp. olive oil
  • 1 to 1½ lbs. chicken sausage, sliced
Sauté until crispy and set aside on a paper towel.

Cut up

  • 2 Yukon gold or russet potatoes cut in ½-inch dice. Do not rinse the potatoes. You want their starch.
Sauté the potatoes in the pan from the bacon. Add more olive oil if you need it. Cook 3 to 4 minutes. Add,

  • 2 cloves garlic minced

and cook with the potatoes another minute or two. Add

  • 2 c. chicken broth

cook 15 minutes to cook the potatoes. Stir in

  • ½ lb. spaghetti, broken into small pieces
  • 2 c. raw or frozen leaf spinach and/or
  • 3/4 c. frozen peas

Cook until the pasta is done and the vegetables are wilted and heated through. Check for salt and pepper. Potatoes eat up salt and you want pepper with these rather mild foods.

Return the meat to the pan. Pour into a warm serving bowl. Shower the pasta with about 1 c. of freshly grated Parmesan cheese (PLEASE, NOT THE STUFF IN THE GREEN CAN!) and Italian parsley.

Serves 3 to 4.

Notes:

  1. You can add more ham or bacon and more pasta and potatoes, depending on how many people are eating and how much they eat.
  2. I made this dish a little different by adding chicken sausages. You could leave out the meat altogether and use vegetable sausage.
  3. Mushrooms add a meaty quality to this meal if you do not want to use meat. You could use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth.
  4. You could also add hot pepper flakes to the dish if you like a bit of heat.
  5. Bubba is Yiddish for grandmother.

    A Cookie Lady Recipe

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