Pasta for soup

LadyDee

Hi, does anybody know where I can get the tiny little pasta shapes to add to soup?

The only place I've seen it is in TK Maxx (!) but to be honest the packets looked as though they'd been kicking around since forever.

There were all different shapes in the packet, not just miniatures of normal shaped pasta, and I thought it would look so attractive in a bowl of home made minestrone.

Mrs_Boo_Boo

Saw the small pasta in Waitrose the other day. My Italian M-I-L always used to complain about the lack of small pasta for her home made minestrone. Delicious.

notanewuser

Can't you just bash up some fusilli?

geordie_joe

LadyDee wrote: »

Hi, does anybody know where I can get the tiny little pasta shapes to add to soup?

Tesco do little pasta animals

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=268623987

geordie_joe

If you search tesco for "pasta shapes" they also do universe shapes and scooby doo pasta (not sure if that is just the name or if they are actually shaped like characters from scooby doo.

Edit: And the Simpsons!

LadyDee

Mrs_Boo_Boo wrote: »

Saw the small pasta in Waitrose the other day. My Italian M-I-L always used to complain about the lack of small pasta for her home made minestrone. Delicious.

Thank you! I should have known Waitrose would have it if anybody did, but I couldn't see it on their website - might have helped if I knew what it's called:) I'll head that way tomorrow to see if it's available in my not-so-local Waitrose.

xpf

Asda do it and it's called Stelline (tiny little star shapes)

LadyDee

It seems that Tesco lists a lot of things online that they don't have instore, as they certainly don't have anything like that in my local shop.

mandco

if you want small pasta check out the baby food aisle for baby pasta stars/shells or sains do tiny alphabet letters & orzo(basically rice sized/shaped pasta)

LadyDee

notanewuser wrote: »

Can't you just bash up some fusilli?

Don't think it would quite have the same effect somehow.

System

Sainsburys do Fusillini (baby fusilli), Orzo (looks like large rice grains), alphabet pasta and little stars 95p for 500g. Currently on buy 3, get one free.