Nudi Pasta.The start-up of a fresh pasta business.

Any person that knows me well, knows I'm always thinking of new business ideas. I could probably say I've been doing businesses (or at least researching about them) all my life. It started in kinder garden with silk worms, $1 each, 2nd grade handmade hair pins, 3rd grade a small bank where my parents would "deposit" pennies, a monthly newspaper that covered 4th grader things like school crushes, then I got more fancy with holiday presents like brownies and cookies all nicely packed and everything.

Sharing some home-made brownies in Kinder garden.

My mom was always very supportive, and I thank her for taking me to buy ingredients, bulk colorful necklace beads, and waking up with me at 5 am to pack cookies in nice little bags to sell that morning in school.

My dad, even though he never woke up at 5, he always listened to my ideas and inspired me in a way that felt like I could do anything I wanted.

Now I'm grown up and it's time to start new adventures. But this time, with a bigger market than 5th graders. So through this blog I'll share with you my story, of the start-up of a small artisan pasta business, everything from ups and downs, and maybe you can one day become part of my adventure too.

Karla



15.2.09

Here comes "la huevona"

Tomatoes are ripening, ingredients have arrived, notes are being taken, the extruding pasta machine is finally doing what it knows best... pasta.



After month's of reconstruction, the pasta room is basically ready. I'm now in the quest for perfect pasta.


The week started with the arrival of my eggs; cage-free eggs from vegetarian fed chickens. This turned out to be a very funny moment for me, which I still can't believe I did not photograph.
Since I'm still on a test period, I still don't need 30 dozen eggs in a week (which is the minimum amount of eggs required to be able to buy at a good price from the distributor). So, some of you had the pleasure of buying from me, while I went up and down in my building, with a cooler full of eggs cartons and ice.

----Knock, Knock, on my friend Chendy's door.

----"Here's la huevona!!!".

---- Great... the new nickname I just needed.

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