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Fazzoletti with Pesto | Fazzoletti al Pesto

Fazzoletti with Pesto | Fazzoletti al Pesto

Pasta handkerchiefs! Growing up, the only hankies we had in the kitchen were either worn on our heads with the corners knotted, or magicked out of nowhere by Nonna, to be spat on and ferociously applied to whatever mess I’d covered myself with. And flowers with pasta? “Why you do that for?”. But here we are, laminating flowers into pasta, and cutting them into handkerchiefs.


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Fazzoletti with Pesto | Fazzoletti al Pesto
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✖️Tomato Day 2025!✖️ 

Exported from Calabria in the 50s, alive in Perth seven decades later 💪🍅 

And basically the main reason we bought a house with excessive expanses of concrete. 

#pastaetal #tomatoday #passata #tomatosauce #homemadetomatosauce #salsa #pastasauce #fcba #agfg #cookgoodfoodau #italymagazine #f52grams #f52home #buzzfeast #makeitdelicious #foodblogfeed #chowhound #calabriafood #eatcalabrisi #littlehands #kidscook #kidsinthekitchen #littlechef @sbsfood @love_food @foodblogfeed
Every family seems to do Tomato Day differently, and we'd probably all say the sauce tasted wrong made any other way. But for us... 

Tomatoes are sorted and washed, then cored, before being layered in salt. This is normally done in a draining crate, with tomatoes wrung out in clean sheets to remove as much water as possible. This is probably the most time-consuming part of the whole day, and starts before sunrise with a pot of strong coffee!

From there, we start passing them through the machine, which produces a strained juice and a whole heap of pulp. That pulp goes through 1-2 more times to extract every last bit of goodness. 

While that's happening, all bottles are cleaned and dried in the oven to sterilise them (this year this was actually done in advance, sealing the tops until Tomato Day), and a couple of fresh basil leaves are dropped into each. 

Then it's all bottled and loaded into giant pots over giant gas burners (replacing the old 44 gallon drums over wood fires), with hessian sacks and towels packed in to stop them rattling against each other. 

Once at the boil, they stay on the heat for around three hours, then are left to cool in their pots overnight. And then, in the morning, tomatoey glory! 

Who else is still doing Tomato Day?

PS. You can get all of that as a proper recipe on our blog now (link in bio) 🍅

#pastaetal #tomatoday #passata #tomatosauce #homemadetomatosauce #salsa #australiantomatoes #traditionalfood #pastafresca #littlehands #kidscook #kidsinthekitchen #littlechef
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It's not really about the tomatoes ❤️

A little recap of Tomato Day 2025 is up on our blog now. Link in bio 🍅

#pastaetal #tomatoday #passata #tomatosauce #homemadetomatosauce #salsa #australiantomatoes #traditionalfood #pastafresca #littlehands #kidscook #kidsinthekitchen #littlechef
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Tomato Day 2025 🍅

After a week spent tidying the garage and hosing down the concrete, we've smashed out another year's worth of tomatoey goodness. And here are some pics!

Left to right: kicking off just before sunrise; coring tomatoes on the old milk crates; our esteemed triumvirate supervising us over morning tea; the boys in charge of the machine; bottling the passata; the operation in full swing.

Shout out to @napoli_mercato for the pomodori 🙏

You can read more on our blog (including the recipe)! Link in bio ❤️

#pastaetal #tomatoday #passata #tomatosauce #homemadetomatosauce #salsa #australiantomatoes #traditionalfood #pastafresca #littlehands #kidscook #kidsinthekitchen #littlechef
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Tomorrow must be Tomato Day 🕺🪩🍅

#pastaetal #ravioli #spinachpasta #greenpasta #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca #acquafarinamarcato #agfg #cookgoodfoodau #feedfeed #f52home #buzzfeast #makeitdelicious #foodblogfeed #chowhound #bbcgoodfood #forksnroses #foodartblog #chefsalert #foodstarz
Little throwback to these cocoa-spiralled fagottini, filled with smooth ricotta and roasted walnut paste ꩜
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These tasty, fluffy, grain-free and dairy-free gnocchi are yours for the making. Recipe link in bio 🍝

#pastaetal #grainfree #grainfreepasta #dairyfree #dairyfreepasta #glutenfreepasta #glutenfree #gf #gnocchi #pastaia #pastaio #pesto #broccolipesto
The bits and pieces from our grain-free and dairy-free gnocchi: broccoli pesto, and fried breadcrumbs 🥦

For the pesto (serving 4), simply blend up 1 large head of blanched broccoli, 1 large handful of basil, 40 g of pine nuts, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 big tbsp of nutritional yeast, 1 tbsp of pumpkin seeds, the juice of half a lemon, and 200 ml of extra virgin olive oil, seasoned to taste 👌

And the breadcrumbs (grain-free 'breadcrumbs') are just gently fried, then mixed through chopped parsley and crushed pink peppercorns.

Full recipe up on our blog (link in bio)!

#pastaetal #grainfree #grainfreepasta #pesto #broccolipesto #broccoli #dairyfree #dairyfreepasta #glutenfreepasta #glutenfree #gf #gnocchi #pastaia #pastaio
Our littlest pastaio busting out some of this week's gnocchi 😍 

#pastaetal #grainfree #grainfreepasta #dairyfree #dairyfreepasta #glutenfreepasta #glutenfree #gf #howtomakepasta #pastashapes #gnocchi #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca
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✖️Grain-Free & Dairy-Free Pan-Fried Gnocchi with Broccoli Pesto✖️ 

The past few years have been a wild family ride through chronic health issues, and we’re still just doing what we can to hang in there. Although I’m the main culprit behind our current dietary requirements, pasta night has evolved by necessity to include three different pasta doughs and at least two sauces (an every-burner-on-the-stove kind of situation). 

We’ve had great success adapting everything to GF (as you would have noticed in recent posts), and dairy-free is not too hard either (choking back your tears at not being able to drink grated pecorino straight from the bag when no one’s looking), but grain-free is a little trickier… 

So we’ve made things easier for ourselves by adding gnocchi to the menu! As long as nightshades (or things that grow underground if you’re staring down mould-free/low-amylose diets) are not causing you any problems, potato is your friend. This recipe does include nuts, for the flavour more than anything else, but you can easily substitute it with more of the other dry ingredients. 

These gnocchi use a mix of potato, almond flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, egg, nutritional yeast, and xanthan gum (with the usual oil, salt, nutmeg). They’re not too heavy, have a nice chewiness to them, and fry up perfectly. Served with a simple broccoli pesto and grain-free breadcrumbs 👌 

I do want to stress that I’m not recommending any particular diet, just providing options. For me, it’s been a long adventure through countless doctors’ offices, hospitals, pathology labs, etc that’s brought me to this point. I think we’ve all come far enough now to know that GF is not a fad or tied to any one diagnosis, allergies are diverse and debilitating, and the only way that we should ever receive anyone’s ‘unusual’ food order is with compassion. I hope that these kinds of recipes make life a little easier or more interesting for someone out there, and are just as delicious for everyone else! 

You can find the link to the full recipe in our bio 🍝 

#pastaetal #grainfree #grainfreepasta #dairyfree #dairyfreepasta #glutenfreepasta #glutenfree #gf #gnocchi #pastaia #pastaio
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Cheeky batch of capps 👀

To make these guys, start with a zig-zag edged square of around 6-8cm, drop a dollop of filling into the middle, and then fold in half to form a triangle. Poke the inner edge of the filling to create a dimple, and then bring the outer corners of the triangle around to slightly overlap. Pinch the overlap to seal in place 👌

#pastaetal #pastatutorials #pastashapes #cappellacci #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca #acquafarinamarcato #agfg #buzzfeast #makeitdelicious
A little afternoon arrangiarsi. We had a heap of almost-finished flours in the cupboard, so this Sunday’s pasta is spaghetti made from Khorasan, spelt, two different wholemeal ryes, wholemeal baker’s, and a gluten-free mix (maize, rice, tapioca). Yes, @fortytwocakes is a baker.

We turned to our trusty KitchenAid for this one. As usual, there’s no real recipe, though it is based on the extruded pasta recipe from our book. So for four people, that’s 560 g of flour, 180 ml of water (measured on top of two whole eggs), and a teaspoon of salt. Note that with all of these wholemeal flours, we added a fair bit more water until it clumped together like buttered breadcrumbs.

I may have tried the odd piece of raw pasta, and can confirm it’s delicious. Now all packaged up and ready for lap-transport to Nonna’s, where we’ll be serving it with a carbonara sauce featuring some sneaky frozen Christmas ham leftovers… 🍝

#pastaetal #arrangiarsi #spaghetti #wholemealpasta #pastashapes #homemadepasta #pastamaking #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca
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✖️Cocoa-Striped Cappellacci✖️

A fun favourite, filled with a simple mix of cheeses and potato. Perfect in a light butter sauce 👌

#pastaetal #cappellacci #cocoapasta #stripedpasta #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca #acquafarinamarcato #agfg #buzzfeast #makeitdelicious #foodblogfeed #chowhound #bbcgoodfood
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When simple is best 👌 

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✖️Dark Rye and Rosemary Sorpresine✖️

One of our most delicious doughs yet! This was 50% dark rye flour, a blend of maize, rice, and tapioca, and finely chopped rosemary mixed throughout. Served up in a simple minestra, straight out of the book (page 103)👌

It’s tricky weather for pasta making in Perth at the moment. Due to the heat (or air-conditioning blasting away to counter the heat), pasta sheets are drying as soon as they hit the board! So it’s all a mad rush of cling wrap, tea towels, and water spritzing (these ones needed a dab of water on every square). What are you all cooking up as 2024 comes to an end?

Incidentally, we’ve had a few queries about cutters lately. This fantastic brass cutter is one of my favourite pasta tools, and (if you’re in AUS/NZ) you can pick one up in our store. They’ve been selling fast over Christmas, so get in now! Link in bio or via this post 😊🍝

#pastaetal #sorpresine #pastaia #pastaio #ryepasta #pastafresca #handmadepasta #foodblog #pastashapes #pastablog #foodblogfeed #pastacutter #pastatool
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#pastaetal #happyholidays #christmaspasta #christmas #festiveseason #buonnatale #ravioli #farfalle #garganelli #corzetti #agnolotti #cappellacci #caramelle #fagottini #funghetti #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca #acquafarinamarcato #agfg #cookgoodfoodau #feedfeed #f52home #buzzfeast #makeitdelicious #foodblogfeed #forksnroses #foodartblog #chefsalert
42°C and the ravs are rolling. It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas... ☀️🍝 

#pastaetal #christmaseve #christmaspasta #ravioli #spinachpasta #greenpasta #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca #acquafarinamarcato #agfg #cookgoodfoodau #feedfeed #f52home #buzzfeast #makeitdelicious #foodblogfeed #chowhound #bbcgoodfood #forksnroses #foodartblog #chefsalert #foodstarz
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Garganelli with our littlest pastaio 💪

This tasty dough is half light rye, with a blend of maize and tapioca starches, and rice and maize flours.

Counting down to festive pasta…

#pastaetal #garganelli #pastaia #pastaio #pastafresca #handmadepasta #foodblog #pastashapes #pastablog #foodblogfeed #howtomakepasta #ryepasta
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✖️Christmas Sale✖️

’Tis the season for pasta-making savings! For the next 5 days only, get 25% off everything in the Pasta et Al store!🎄

We’ve never had a sale as big as this, and we might not until next Christmas. So head on over via the links in this post, or in our bio, and use the code LABEFANA at checkout to save on books, cutters, moulds, and bundles!

We might be a little biased, but there’s pretty much no gift as good as pasta paraphernalia 🎁🍝

Please note that we can only ship to Australia and New Zealand, and can only guarantee delivery before Christmas for parcels shipped within Australia up until and including the 13th of December (apologies and much love to our international pals). Offer ends 12th December.

#pastaetal #christmaspasta #christmassale #pastashop #cookbook #pastafresca #pastafattaincasa #pastafattaamano #pastatools #raviolimould #pastacutter #freshpasta #pastabook
Behind the scenes at Pasta et Al. Standard kitchen attire 🦄

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