Puree

Ingredients:

• Brown Rice
• Red Rice
• Millets
• Tri-color quinoa
• Pumpkin
• Carrots
• Chinese Spinach
• Chinese Red Spinach
• Spinach
• Baby Pak Choy

I forgot to put pearl barley, another good grain with lots of vitamin, minerals & good source of fibres.

JC dislike green vegetables.  The only green vegetables he eats is puree.

JE loves smooth puree.  If the puree is not smooth, she will not swallow.  She loves pumpkin and dislike carrots.

Breast Milk Content..Do you ever wonder?

Homemade Vegetable Stock

Wondering what are those? Homemade vegetable stock for my prince! No salt & no MSG added! Healthy recipe just for him!

I got this recipe from Baby Center. I found it very rich in flavour and even my prince said "NICE".

Annabel Karmel's homemade vegetable stock.

It’s easy to make a homemade vegetable stock that will keep in the fridge for up to a week. Use this to form the basis of your purées, rather than relying on salt-filled, shop-bought stock cubes.

• Preparation: 10 minutes
• Cooking: 1 hour 10 minutes
• Makes 850ml (29fl oz)
• Provides beta-carotene, folate and potassium
• Suitable for freezing

Ingredients
1 onion, peeled
1 garlic clove, peeled and roughly chopped
2 large carrots, peeled
1 large leek, washed
1 stick celery
1 tbsp olive oil
850ml (29fl oz) water
1 sprig of parsley
1 sprig of thyme (optional)
1 bay leaf
4 peppercorns

Method
Roughly chop all the vegetables. Heat the olive oil in a large, thick-bottomed pan and add the vegetables and garlic. Sweat the vegetables in the oil without colouring for 5 minutes – cover with a lid if you like.

Add the cold water and bring to the boil. Add the herbs, bay leaf and peppercorns. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour.

Leave to cool for a couple of hours, then strain through a sieve. Squeeze remaining juices out of the vegetables by pushing them down in the sieve with a potato masher.

Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream

I got new recipe book from a book fair lately. These homemade ice creams are from the book.

Ingredients are strawberry + sugar. I always opt for organic sugar / brown sugar. Blend it still smooth before putting them into ice cube tray or ice cream mould.

Since I made these, my son keep on asking for ice-cream. Most important, it is healthy and top-up his fibre intake.

At last, I found it

It is in Malaysia at last (not sure how long ago).... IT IS HERE.

Hands Free Pump Bra by La Leche.

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Baby Cubes to store baby food individual.

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Both items sold at Tiny Tapir.

Too happy about it .... just want to let you all know... it is here in MALAYSIA.

Bento Mania

I found a mommy is a bento mania. I am very surprise that she can manage to create something so nice which I would guess no children can resist such a nice food. Her creation not only edible, it is good for display set as well. Wish to learn more from her, visit her @ Hijack Queen.

When I read her blog, it is like she is talking to me personally ~ feeling very warm. :p

This picture taken from her website (I hope she do not mind).

I love them. Thinking of trying something like this to smooth my fussy-eater son. LOL. Not sure what is the outcome as I am not born creative. :p

Dessert Purees - Pear & Carrot

Taken from Avent Leaflet

Pears are particularly good if you think your baby may be slightly constipated – if you are still breastfeeding, try drinking some pear juice yourself if your baby is constipated; it really seems to do the trick.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 small carrot
• 1 ripe pear

METHOD

1. Peel the carrot and cut into small dice. Cook in a small pan of boiling water until the pieces are just tender (approximately 3-4 minutes). Alternatively, steam over a pan of boiling water (approximately 5 minutes). Drain.
2. Peel and core the pear and cut into small pieces. Put them into a small pan with 2 tbsp water and cook until just softened (approximately 5 minutes), depending on the pear’s ripeness.
3. Whiz the pear and carrot together with a blender or food processor until smooth.

Baby Food

What is the first thing come to your mind? It is a bowl of plain porridge or Gerber or Heinz.

The first thing came to my mind was a bowl of porridge filled with at least 4 vegetables. Where do I learn that? - from Shanice about 5 years ago.

I started my research on baby food when my son approaching 5 months. I want him to get all nutrients from a bowl of porridge rather just a bowl of carbohydrate.

I even did my own food puree and put it in the freezer and it can last to up 1 month, but most of time - I will wake up early just to do fresh puree for him. His favorite are carrots & sweet corns. He can finished 3 sweet corns at one time. ^_^. I love to make fresh puree for him because he will finish his food most of the time. I guess that make me a great chef for baby food. LOL.

Below was his porridge last week, it contains brown rice, spinach, carrots, garlic, anchovies and egg. I love it when he opened his mouth wide open to welcome a spoonful of porridge.