Now that I'm (mostly, hopefully) feeling better (again), it's time for me to relieve Michael of all the cooking duties he's taken over lately. Not that he doesn't enjoy it, but, y'know, just to give him a break so he can get to all the stuff I can't do around the house - man stuff. But I'm just not feeling inspired with cooking. We've started getting in to the habit of feeding Millie less baby food and more 'real' food - tiny portions and tastes of what we're having. But I'm just uninspired. Whatever we make, we have to take into consideration that the stuff she can eat has to be pretty simple - we want her to be able to taste the ingredient(s) / flavors and not alot of seasoning (and definitely no spice). It's gotta be relatively healthy, too, so we'll eat it...and I figure we can season our own portions separately (and add some heat, too).
We have a terrific baby cookbook, Karin Knight's The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet, but we've pretty much gotten all the miles we can out of it until she turns a year, and we're tired of running through her tried and true favorites - it's repetitive for us, so it's gotta be for her. So if you have any inspiring websites that do simple recipes, or if you have any recipes you want to share, that would be awesome. If it helps, her all-time top foods are:
- squash (any and all varieites)
- almost any fruit - blueberries, pears, peaches, apples. She just hasn't liked mango (!)
- chicken
- avocado
- ground turkey
- sweet potato
- bland dairy (cottage cheese, plain yogurt, or some colby, for example)
She eats a few other things - carrots, green beans, peas, York Peppermint patty - just not as reliably. (And pasta / wheat is out). Part of our challenge is a short-lived one - once she's one, she can eat some additional things, like milk. And maybe she'll even have a tooth or two by then to tackle things that require teeth to tear apart. In the meantime we have come up with, I think, pretty much every combo of everything she eats that is mathematically possible - chicken & cheese 'meat'balls, avocado & ground turkey 'burritos', yogurt parfaits w/ fruit...So if you have thoughts or think of anything, let me know!
