So we're in my kitchen today and I'm here with my mum
I'm gonna cook a recipe that mum use to cook us, our nana use to cook us when we were really little
It's a pastina recipe. Pastina is just hundreds and hundreds of tiny little pasta
Which is perfect for kids and all the family can enjoy it, even the adults.
Into our Pastina, we are going to put courgettes, an egg yolk, Parmesan cheese and some Olive Oil.
It's just all of those little ingredients are full of nutrients. We loved this didn't we. 
So into our boiling water, I'm gonna put two handfuls of Pastina
I've got lots of different Pastina here. Two different sizes
I'm gonna use the Stalina, which is the tiny, tiny, tiny little star
and this recipe is for a baby who is starting to try new textures
So Fiamma is nearly one and she quite enjoys exploring different textures
So what you want to do with this Pastina is you don't want to cook it fully yet
Because you want to cook the courgette and the egg as well. So you want to, I would say
4-5 minutes, so it's not quite Al Dente 
but it's almost getting there.
I'm just gonna have a little taste
Yep ok, so while that's cooking I'm going to grate some Parmesan and mum will you grate the courgette
We're gonna use half a courgette
so we keep skin on because all the
goodness and the nutrients are in the skin
Ok Mich, here we go. 
That's a lot of courgette, did you do more than half?!
I think I did a bit more. I won't put all that in then
In that goes, and that's gonna cook for about 2-3 minutes
Give it a little stir
and what you want to happen is you want all the water to be absorbed
because this isn't meant to be a soup, it's meant to be like a little Pepena. But as that courgette cooks
It's gonna release a lot of the nutrients into the water, which will then get absorbed by the pasta.
So into this we're gonna add the yolk of one egg
and make sure you whisk it well
There you go, so that's going to cook in a matter of... well seconds probably.
and then into there is gonna be a tablespoon of parmesan and a tablespoon of Olive Oil.
and a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
We loved this as toddlers. It's just full of flavour.
you can see here it has got liquid bhecause you don't want it to be dry
you know if it's dry it's really hard to
swallow for a little baby
and you can drain away a bit of the water if it's too runny, depending on the age of your baby
and what it's used to eating really
So I'm just gonna put that into a little bowl
There we go it's done. Time to serve to Fiamma
So that is a family favourite, it's our Chiappa family baby pasta
