Barb replied to Heather:

>> I'm going to do a semi-spicy, tomato/vegetable base with great northern
>> beans, potatoes, potatoes, kale, onion and whatnot. I wanted to add some
>> rotini (because it's in my pantry).
>>
>> Generally, when I make soups (generally of the chicken noodle variety) I
>> cook the egg noodles seperately, add them to the bowl and add them to the
>> soup so as to avoid mushy noodles in the leftover soup. But, i'm pretty
>> much just going to be making enough for him, could I cook the noodles in
>> the soup? Will that still release too much starch into the soup?
>
> Don't cook them in the soup. Actually, leave them out and use the
> flippin' rotini for something else. Seriously. Sounds like a nice dish
> right up until you were going to put pasta in it. Don't.

Especially since she listed potatoes twice! :-)

Bob