Pastina fresca per brodo (small pasta for vegetable stock)

[Bedidassi]

This is a very very easy way to prepare good fresh pasta to use it in broths or soups but I also use it sometime just dry, with butter and cheese. I'm sorry I dont have pictures but I tried to use the attachment and it doesn't work, maybe because I'm on holiday and I'm using an iPad...
Ingredients for 2 big bowls
For the pastina:
-1 egg
-100 gr of flour 00
-20 gr of flour 00 to cut the pastina
-nutmeg

For the vegetable stock
-700 gr water
-vegetable stock or 200 gr. mixed vegetable
-2 tablespoons of tomato puree
-olive oil

Put the flour, the egg and the nutmeg in the tmx bowl: 10 sec. speed 4/5
From the hole and with blades at speed 4 add the remaining 20 gr. of flour and stop immediately.
Put the pastina you have obtained on a tray with a cloth with flour or semolina on.
Wash the bowl and put the water, the tomato puree, the oil and the stock or vegetables. (usually I put parsley, onion, courgette and carrot)
Cook for 10/12 minutes (it depends on which vegetable you are cooking) then mix 10/15 seconds speed 7 and then add the pastina and cook 7 min.100' reserve speed. Serve with some olive oil and grated Parmesan cheese

[Halex]

Will try this too.

Thank you so much
Hally

[Frozzie]

First bedidassi I think you mean mix 10/15 seconds on the second time there??

Also for the Pastina (which you should explain means tiny pasta) ....how do you cut it/prepare the pasta shapes?? do you have mini shape cutters or is it just mixed into tiny balls???

[judydawn]

Thanks for asking about the pasta shapes Frozzie, I wondered about that myself.

[Bedidassi]

First bedidassi I think you mean mix 10/15 seconds on the second time there??

Also for the Pastina (which you should explain means tiny pasta) ....how do you cut it/prepare the pasta shapes?? do you have mini shape cutters or is it just mixed into tiny balls???

About the time thanks Frozzie. Of course it had be seconds. About the name, i though  calling it small pasta should do... About the shape, it just comes out like that thank to the blades that, with the second add of flour, cut the pasta into a sort of small "coriandoli". I'm sorry I wasn't so clear but it's not my native language and sometime I find quite difficult to find the right words. Not knowing how to insert pictures it does not help either..

[Frozzie]

sorry my fault re the tiny bedidassi (didnt see the part in brackets in the heading)...ooops so no problem with language on your end    and we have all done the miss print with times, measurements etc at one stage!!

Good to know it just comes out like that...yay no extra work! 

your english is great so please dont apologise...my problem is finding words in french sometimes...so totally understand its not always easy and its a lifelong learning experience with other languages!

to insert pictures when you type your post you have 'additional options on the bottom left..click on that and you click on the browse button to find and attach your files but just take note of the max file size is only 256kb and only 4 photos per post so if your photo isnt too big you just find, add then post and it will appear!  hope this helps!

[Bedidassi]

sorry my fault re the tiny bedidassi (didnt see the part in brackets in the heading)...ooops so no problem with language on your end    and we have all done the miss print with times, measurements etc at one stage!!

Good to know it just comes out like that...yay no extra work! 

your english is great so please dont apologise...my problem is finding words in french sometimes...so totally understand its not always easy and its a lifelong learning experience with other languages!

to insert pictures when you type your post you have 'additional options on the bottom left..click on that and you click on the browse button to find and attach your files but just take note of the max file size is only 256kb and only 4 photos per post so if your photo isnt too big you just find, add then post and it will appear!  hope this helps!

No problem Frozzie. I'm trying my best but if is not enough, then you all will ask explenations, ok?
The "additional options" don't work. Maybe it depends because I'm writing on an iPad? It doesn't let me clic on it....

[Frozzie]

yes ok and same goes for you bedidassi because as you know different countries have different terminologies and what may be clear to one person is not so clear to another 

oh and yes it would be the ipad as when i was away same thing happened on my iphone..dont know why that is...does anybody know why you cant add photos etc on the forum via ipad and iphone??? MM???

[Bedidassi]

yes ok and same goes for you bedidassi because as you know different countries have different terminologies and what may be clear to one person is not so clear to another 

oh and yes it would be the ipad as when i was away same thing happened on my iphone..dont know why that is...does anybody know why you cant add photos etc on the forum via ipad and iphone??? MM???

I went to have a look if I could by any chance send you a personal msg with the picture but there was nowhere to attach them...
When on September I'll go home, then I will use the iMac and there won't be any problem, but for the moment, unless I find a way to send pictures to someone who put them for me (but I find it too much elaborated) we have to do without. I was going to try with my iPhone but you dissipated my hopes   
By the way, I may leave for France tomorrow or at the latest, on Wendsday morning..

[Frozzie]

sorry again    but sadly its true you cant attach photos on this forum from ipad or iphone...well my button is there but its not lit up so to speak so i cant click on it (kind of like its blocked) but no problems on a laptop or pc

i know with a private message you can attach photos via the image button (second from the left second row of buttons) but I fear it will be the same problem..there you get hte placement link of the photo, right click or file options and it should have copy link of photo or something along those lines then on the post you click on the image button and place the curser inbetween the two inner brackets and paste!! saying that ive never done it one hte iphone so good luck but im thinking it will be more trouble than its worth and we will just have to wait another month until your back home and on a pc 

enjoy your time in or near Marseille!! It should be great weather for you at least im hoping!!  From what Ive seen too accommodation is alot cheaper than normal this year...lots of vacancies which have been getting booked up due to the reduced prices! 

[Bedidassi]

sorry again    but sadly its true you cant attach photos on this forum from ipad or iphone...well my button is there but its not lit up so to speak so i cant click on it (kind of like its blocked) but no problems on a laptop or pc

i know with a private message you can attach photos via the image button (second from the left second row of buttons) but I fear it will be the same problem..there you get hte placement link of the photo, right click or file options and it should have copy link of photo or something along those lines then on the post you click on the image button and place the curser inbetween the two inner brackets and paste!! saying that ive never done it one hte iphone so good luck but im thinking it will be more trouble than its worth and we will just have to wait another month until your back home and on a pc 

enjoy your time in or near Marseille!! It should be great weather for you at least im hoping!!  From what Ive seen too accommodation is alot cheaper than normal this year...lots of vacancies which have been getting booked up due to the reduced prices! 

For the photos you are right. I will do it when I'll be back home, even because I won't be able to post anything from France. Too expensive. My only chance its if I find some wifi spot but I know from experience that they are very rare.
I'm going to Marseille only for two days because for the rest of the time I will stay in Montecarlo (and move around from there) and fortunately I don't have to pay for accommodation because my father has got a flat there and that is where we will stay

[Frozzie]

lucky you bedidassi    we have friends down south and usually stay with them but they are more marseille area and the south west...bayonne etc  We have stayed in apartments down south but I am so fussy I didnt like it much (accom)...they looked gorgeous in the photos but when we got there it was clean but nothing like the photos and in one room the bed took up the size of the room literally ie you walked in the door frame and ploof bed and no space around lol and Ive found that happens alot...even 'nice' hotels disappoint...DH thinks I was spoilt and am now ruined as he puts it..the norm in oz is alot higher standard than the norm here..you would have to pay ALOT more money to get that kind of standard but such is life....Im just asking for space, modern and clean which is not all that easy to come by as a whole 

France is much better for wifi over the past year...i find i can connect most places and most public areas and hotels have free wifi now!  Will be interested to see how you go!  Enjoy your trip and France! 

[Bedidassi]

lucky you bedidassi    we have friends down south and usually stay with them but they are more marseille area and the south west...bayonne etc  We have stayed in apartments down south but I am so fussy I didnt like it much (accom)...they looked gorgeous in the photos but when we got there it was clean but nothing like the photos and in one room the bed took up the size of the room literally ie you walked in the door frame and ploof bed and no space around lol and Ive found that happens alot...even 'nice' hotels disappoint...DH thinks I was spoilt and am now ruined as he puts it..the norm in oz is alot higher standard than the norm here..you would have to pay ALOT more money to get that kind of standard but such is life....Im just asking for space, modern and clean which is not all that easy to come by as a whole 

France is much better for wifi over the past year...i find i can connect most places and most public areas and hotels have free wifi now!  Will be interested to see how you go!  Enjoy your trip and France! 

Montecarlo is really nice but, obviously, very posh and expensive but fortunately, not paying to sleep and moving around, won't kill us. Surely the Australian standard is higher than in Europe, and you should see hotels in Florence  About the wifi we have been in Montecarlo even last Christmas and the only wifi spot I could find was 1 mt, for 1 mt. in front of the Casino...

[Frozzie]

yes the Australian standard is higher and hte reason why DH thinks i was very spoilt..but it helps being a young country with mainly modern buildings and alot of space...  and was speaking generally about wifi but monte carlo couldnt tell you and as you go there often obviously you would know...but I have found that wifi in general has improved in France..perhaps its yuet to arrive in Monte Carlo or the locals perhaps dont want it ...lol i can imagine you at the 1m2 in front of the casino 

yes monte carlo is very exclusive which is why i said lucky you with your dad having an apartment there!!  Nice base for travelling around !!  Not so big on posh expensive places just space and modern which ends up being expensive anyway in europe..most aussies have a very comfortable lifestyle (compared to the rest of the world even if they dont think so!) but  with a down to earth attitude...strange mix for most people who arent used to it..DH loves it (obviously) ...best of both worlds!

[Bedidassi]

Australians maybe cannot fully appreciate the lot of space you have. They should stay for a week or so in Pisa or Florence and then they would understand how precious it can be, and as you say, yours is a young and modern country but I've been there and I could compare the way of life between Italy and Australia and Oz wins 10 to 1
It must have been a very difficult change of life from Australia to France, so this leads me to think that with your DH it was a real coupe de foudre  .  When I went to live in London, maaaaaany years ago, it was immediately love at first sight but then, it was the opposite: from small and provincial to metropolitan city, so it worked well but for you...
You are right to laugh imagining me in front of the Casino trying to act with nonchalance with the iPhone well hidden in my hand and trying at the same time to read my mail   Of course all the hotels will have the wifi but I would have expected all Montecarlo to be a wifi spot, like Forte dei Marmi, close to Viareggio, where I am now. It's one of the most  exclusive places in Europe and it's all wifi..
Maybe you are right: the locals don't approve  
Now I have to finish packing. We have decided to leave tomorrow morning at 9. I will trying to get back to you from France. Last December sometime I could find a 1 mt. for 1 mt. spot just on the left inside of the flat balcony where I could use my Italian phone connection