It’s an Italian pasta dish pronounced “Eye Oy” and my family makes it with pasta, olive oil, garlic, spices, and usually broccoli or spinach.
Everyone in my family knows how to make this dish but no one has a clue how to actually spell it.
I see you use garlic and olive oil, so perhaps it is along the lines of aioli?
Could you be speaking of “pasta ala olio”? Usually just oil, garlic, and herbs, although I’ve seen it with spinach, arugula or rabe.
Aglio e olio.
It sounds good… so, what’s the recipe? 
Sounds like it’s something along the lines of all three recommended spellings. Thanks all!
And now for Savannah, the recipe:
Ingredients
1/3 cup olive oil
3 T garlic
salt, pepper, parsley, and other desired spices to taste
3 bunches fresh broccoli
1 14oz box Whole Wheat Pasta (usually spaghetti)
Directions
- In a large frying pan, combine the garlic, olive oil, and spices. Cook for about 10 minutes or so or until the garlic starts to brown.
- While garlic is cooking, cook the broccoli. You can steam it, boil it, microwave it, or even just add it into the garlic mixture.
- While garlic and broccoli are cooking, cook the pasta according to the box. Leave some of the pasta water to add to the final dish.
- Combine all ingredients. Toss well.
Enjoy!
You may want to tweak this recipe to your taste. I already did by substituting water for some of the olive oil and using whole wheat pasta. Some people also add in fresh onions.
I highly recommend serving this with breaded chicken cutlets. You can cook these up by either frying them (preferably in olive oil) or baking them (much lower in fat and calories).
In preview…it looks like the board isn’t picking up on my coding, so I hope the bolding all goes through as intended.
–And it didn’t. Oh well.