Pasta and Green Peas

This is a very nice mixture of your favorite noodles and green peas. Easy to adapt to gluten-free diets.

Serves two hungry pasta lovers. Scale as needed.

*Pasta: your favourite one. I'm using dry spaghetti (100 g per person), but type of noodels it's up to you.
*Green peas: Shown canned peas (350 g). If you will not use canned peas, cook the peas until tender.
*Garlic: at least two cloves. 
*Baked potato: really otional, just a leftover and decided to put in the dish.
*Olive oil: or another type to taste.

Not shown: salt and black pepper to taste.

Mash the peas with a fork until you have a plain cream. I prefer a bit more coarse than creamy.

Start cookin the noodles. You will need 1 liter of boiling water and salt to taste to cook 100 g of pasta. Will be done in about 8 minutes, al dente.

Put the olive oil in a saucepan and heat up. Add the garlc and stir. Do not let it brown, just tender and smelly cooked garlic. If you are into cooking, you know what I mean, yeah, yeah... :-)

Add the mushy peas to the garlic an heat and mix. If too thick add some water. In case of doubt, keep it watery.

Mix the cooked pasta with the sauce.
At this point I diced an added the potato.

The dish is ready. Enjoy!

Some variants I done in the past (sorry, no pics):

*Add some chopped bacon or pancetta to the garlic before adding the peas, tasty.
*You can also add some diced lean meat (pork loin, chicken breasts) and stir fry it. Add the garlic and go on.
*A dash of tabasco or another hot sauce is a nice variation.

Gluten-free: just use your favorite gluten free pasta instead of regular noodles and you are done (assuming you just used gluten free ingredients in all the steps).