Usage examples (18)

• 1/2 cup ditalini or tubetti -- cooked, rinsed and drained
• If, like today, I am using dried pasta – this ditalini is prefect – I cook it separately and then add it to the soup.
• Additionally, the chosen pasta may have absorbed more of the liquid on account of its greater surface size, but it does not really look that much bigger than ditalini.
• I amended two details right off the mark - because I was not making a meat dish, I opted for vegetable stock instead of chicken stock, and I used small seashell pasta instead...