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Food for children 12 months and up can be glamorous and simple.  It can be homemade and easy.  It can challenge them with texture, wow them with taste, and fill them with nutrition.  The TSF Semolina Past Bumps will satisfy all of this with 10 or less ingredients in 30 minutes or less.  Not only will junior be asking for seconds at lunch, but your neighbors will be envious of your skills.

Semolina is a flour made from hard durum wheat.  It's the type of flour used in hard, dried pastas; the brother to the softer durum wheat that you see as farina or cream of wheat.  The benefit to this flour is the ability to bypass the egg and messiness of the traditional soft flour pastas and go for a cleaner, leaner, chewier type of pasta.  To make a basic semolina dough all you need is water and salt.  Once in dough form, you can make any shape you want and throw it in boiling water.  You don't have to worry about the excess calories that come with egg pasta and you don't have to worry about chopping boxed store-bought pasta down to kid size.  Make bumps for the kids, make tagliatelle for the parents.

When we serve our pasta bumps we generally serve it with the TSF basic pasta sauce or simply with extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of salt.  

TSF Semolina Pasta Bumps - File Under Thiamin, Fiber, Iron, Vitamin C, Vitamin K (with tomato sauce)

• 1 cup semolina flour
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 "pinch" of salt
• Other Ingredients:  excess semolina flour for bench flour, boiling water

-Add all ingredients together in a bowl, whisk until they come together, kneed for about 1 minute until it becomes smooth and elastic

-Let sit for 30 minutes in the fridge

-Cut off a slice of the dough, roll into small thin logs (or laces or strings) then cut the small "bumps" off one at a time. If you've made Gnocchi, this is the same process but in miniaturized form

-Keep bumps in the excess semolina to prevent them from sticking together prior to boiling

-Bring salted water to a boil

-Add the pasta and boil for approximately two minutes

-Drain and serve with your favorite pasta sauce or extra virgin olive or the TSF Basic Tomato Sauce.

Stork Fork Food Tip:

-TSF Basic Tomato Sauce will appear in later this week as a separate article!

-Make the dough once a week.  It will last for a week and use it as a weapon for quick nourishing meals during the week.