Calling Chef Donna: Spinach Acini di Pepe vegan Hi Donna

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Hiya Donna. Thank you (and Susie) for the information. I'll have to

get the orzo or go ahead and do the regular pasta bit. The almenticia

is a perfect perfect perfect discovery - I love soups so I'll be using

this quite alot (it sounds crockpot friendly too). It actually did

have directions on it for soup (and this package was only $.29). I'll

have to grab more of them next time (they had cool choices for shapes

too - " watermelon seed " , " alphabet " , " stars " ).

 

Good luck on your spring flowers!

 

Take care,

Shawn

 

, GeminiDragon

<thelilacflower> wrote:

> Hey Shawn, Just out the door to Whole foods. You can get orzo pasta

to use instead and it's like a small rice shaped pasta. The acini is

semolina also but very tiny and swells up a bit when cooked. The

almenticia is used more in soups and I haven't tried that one in this

recipe, it's a pasta that will cook up faster and it's tossed in

Mexican soups at the last 7 minutes or so. Do you have an Italian

deli in your area? Acini is imported from Italy. Try this recipe

with orzo if you can find it. Orzo will be in the pasta isle and used

in Italian dishes. It's a hard pasta like acini and takes that same

time to cook.

> Let me know and I'll toss a cup of acini in a manila envelope and

send youi if you can't find the orzo.

> Hope you've had a good weekend. I finally planted spring flowers, I

love my purple pinata impatiens..............Donna

>

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, " matrixenos "

<matrixenos@h...> wrote:

>

> Hiya Donna. Thank you (and Susie) for the information. I'll have to

> get the orzo or go ahead and do the regular pasta bit. The almenticia

> is a perfect perfect perfect discovery - I love soups so I'll be using

> this quite alot (it sounds crockpot friendly too). It actually did

> have directions on it for soup (and this package was only $.29). I'll

> have to grab more of them next time (they had cool choices for shapes

> too - " watermelon seed " , " alphabet " , " stars " ).

 

" Watermelon seed " will be pretty close to the orzo. The stars are

really cute. I use them for backpacking because I can cook them at

home and dehydrate them... then on the trail they rehydrate really

quickly.