Do you make your kids pastina when they're sick?
posted February 1st, 2018 at 5:13pm in Toddler
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- that tiny pasta is too annoying. i don't buy it 2-1-2018 5:13pm +2 likes
- Yes, I make it for myself too! 2-1-2018 5:13pm
- No. Ew. 2-1-2018 5:13pm
- Are you Italian? 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- No! But I saw this on FB, and the girl (my age) who was making it for her kids, and said her mom always made it for them, is from an Italian family. 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- I am OR from above, I'm Italian. 2-1-2018 5:15pm +2 likes
- Np— yes we ate it. Not just when sick 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- My mother is Jewish and she made it (but it was really gross, not loke my Italian grandmother who would put it in chicken soup) 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- how does she make it that it would be "gross". Pastina is usually tiny pasta in chicken broth. 2-1-2018 5:25pm
- My mother would put a massive scoop of corttage cheese in the bowl of pastina 2-1-2018 5:27pm
- OK. that sound revolting. I have only had it the way your nonna made it -- homemade chicken stock and pastina noodles. Maybe a sprinkle of cheese as well. Comfortin and simple and...(more) 2-1-2018 5:28pm easy to digest. No egg or greens and certainly no cottage cheese! LOL
- Exactly. MIL also makes it with chicken broth and maybe a dash of cheese if the oatient didn’t have an upset stomach 2-1-2018 5:29pm
- As a point of reference^^ my mother used to also serve spaghetti with ketchup 2-1-2018 5:30pm
- LOL. I see. What did your Nonna think about her DIL's cooking skills? 2-1-2018 5:32pm
- Not much. Eventually my mother learned to at least buy a jar of Prego. 2-1-2018 5:32pm
- LOL. I see. What did your Nonna think about her DIL's cooking skills? 2-1-2018 5:32pm
- As a point of reference^^ my mother used to also serve spaghetti with ketchup 2-1-2018 5:30pm
- Exactly. MIL also makes it with chicken broth and maybe a dash of cheese if the oatient didn’t have an upset stomach 2-1-2018 5:29pm
- OK. that sound revolting. I have only had it the way your nonna made it -- homemade chicken stock and pastina noodles. Maybe a sprinkle of cheese as well. Comfortin and simple and...(more) 2-1-2018 5:28pm
- My mother would put a massive scoop of corttage cheese in the bowl of pastina 2-1-2018 5:27pm
- how does she make it that it would be "gross". Pastina is usually tiny pasta in chicken broth. 2-1-2018 5:25pm
- No! But I saw this on FB, and the girl (my age) who was making it for her kids, and said her mom always made it for them, is from an Italian family. 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- I don’t know what pastina is so no 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- Why would that help? 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- comfort food 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- not if youve never eaten it 2-1-2018 5:16pm +1 like
- It's comfort food. 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- Not to this Irish American 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- so you do bangers and mash instead? 2-1-2018 5:16pm
- Oh that would be lovely. But no. 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- Well it is to this Italian. 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- so you do bangers and mash instead? 2-1-2018 5:16pm
- It is? 2-1-2018 5:18pm
- Not to this Irish American 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- comfort food 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- Make them? 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- “Do you make your kids dinner?” Does that perplex you as well? 2-1-2018 5:18pm
- I make them different foods based on what they are sick with and what they want. 2-1-2018 5:14pm
- Yes! And did my mom when we were young. 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- so just an egg and cheese, right? 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- What? 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- how do you make it? 2-1-2018 5:16pm
- I don't. 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- how do you make it? 2-1-2018 5:16pm
- No, just butter with a little salt and pepper. 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- oh, see, the one I saw, and I also Googled, is you cook the pasta, leave a little bit of water after draining, add a beaten egg, which cooks in the remaining hot water, then add...(more) 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- Pastina carbonara? 2-1-2018 5:18pm
- is that what carbonara is? 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- It has some ingredients in common. (But that is not how I make it) 2-1-2018 5:20pm
- I need to learn more about these methods 2-1-2018 5:21pm
- Carbonara makes a nice quick dinner 2-1-2018 5:22pm +2 likes
- I need to learn more about these methods 2-1-2018 5:21pm
- It has some ingredients in common. (But that is not how I make it) 2-1-2018 5:20pm
- is that what carbonara is? 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- Pastina carbonara? 2-1-2018 5:18pm
- oh, see, the one I saw, and I also Googled, is you cook the pasta, leave a little bit of water after draining, add a beaten egg, which cooks in the remaining hot water, then add...(more) 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- What? 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- so just an egg and cheese, right? 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- Funny, one of Dh's Italian American coworkers used to tell him to do this! 2-1-2018 5:15pm +2 likes
- No, I usually make them minute rice. 2-1-2018 5:15pm
- pastina is just the pasta-- what is the recipe? Sounds promising. 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- egg and cheese after cooking the pasta 2-1-2018 5:18pm
- What kind of egg? 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- hen 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- Omg, I meant how is it cooked? 2-1-2018 5:20pm
- Np— this egg stuff is news to me. I would serve it with butter or added to soup 2-1-2018 5:21pm +1 like
- hang on 2-1-2018 5:21pm
- ^^this is what Google says, and this is what my FB friend said...(more) 2-1-2018 5:22pm 1.Bring one cup of water to boil in small saucepan.
2.Add pastina and salt and cook until most of the water is absorbed, 3-4 minutes.
3.Turn off heat and stir in egg, letting it cook in the hot pasta.
4.Add butter, cheese and pepper. Eat slowly out of your favorite bowl with your favorite spoon.
5.Feel much better- ^indgredients...(more) 2-1-2018 5:23pm
- I have never heard if it made this way and I have eaten it my whole lofe 2-1-2018 5:23pm
- here...(more) 2-1-2018 5:23pm https://www.framedcooks.com/2009/07/pastina-with-egg-and-cheese-otherwise-known-as-comfort-food.html
- Yep I see. It does sound like carbonara that way and it doesn’t appeal to me as a comfort/sick food 2-1-2018 5:25pm
- i want to try it. i think it'd do really well to have a little bit of bacon 2-1-2018 5:25pm
- And that’s your spaghetti carbonara (but use pancetta or, my choice, diced up prosciutto) 2-1-2018 5:28pm
- i want to try it. i think it'd do really well to have a little bit of bacon 2-1-2018 5:25pm
- Yep I see. It does sound like carbonara that way and it doesn’t appeal to me as a comfort/sick food 2-1-2018 5:25pm
- here...(more) 2-1-2018 5:23pm
- ^^this is what Google says, and this is what my FB friend said...(more) 2-1-2018 5:22pm
- Omg, I meant how is it cooked? 2-1-2018 5:20pm
- hen 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- What kind of egg? 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- Np- we put it in chicken broth 2-1-2018 5:19pm
- egg and cheese after cooking the pasta 2-1-2018 5:18pm
- My mom made it semi-regularly 2-1-2018 5:17pm
- No I make them something Ayurvedic based 2-1-2018 5:18pm
- Like what? 2-1-2018 5:23pm
- Are you s guido? 2-1-2018 5:19pm +1 like, -2 dislikes
- Sometimes with chicken noodle soup 2-1-2018 5:22pm
- Yes instead of the noodles... and no meat in it. Just a broth. Gentle food 2-1-2018 5:24pm
- I have only heard about pastina on the Sopranos 2-1-2018 5:22pm +1 like, -1 dislike