Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

PASTA, PATATE, E PROVOLA A great winter feel-good dish from rural Campania. Pasta with potatoes and smoked provola, like many Italian comfort foods, starts with a soffritto—garlic, carrot, celery, and onion gently fried in olive oil—which lends a sweet and vegetal depth to the dish. Then, in go the potatoes, followed by vegetable broth and pasta mista corta. Italy’s Little-Known Trick for Using Up Leftover Dried Pasta | Saveur