On The Mend

Yesterday I had a fever. Today is MUCH better. I'm using my recuperation time to make baby food! Gooner has been eating a lot of sweet potatoes, squash, applesauce, and pears because that's all I've made. Today I am adding carrots, green peas, green beans, mangos, pumpkins, and prunes to her diet.

Currently the kitchen is a PIT, but I needed to sit down. I'm reminding myself that I'm supposed to be resting... And it is for that reason alone that I am taking a break before cleaning up the mess. In my opinion the easiest baby food to make is by far carrots. Buy organic, scrub em, cut em, steam em, and blend em. Done. They are easy clean and liquidy. And theeeeeeeeeeeeen we have prunes. I have gotten my recipes from www.wholesomebabyfood.com This part of the recipe - Prunes tend to become a gluey pasty consistency when pureed. - made me nervous, but I was up for the challenge. I plopped my pitted prunes into my steamer, waited til they felt done, and then put them in the food processor. Yuck. They became this huge lumpy sticky mass. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. So I added water, and more water and then some grape juice, and then MORE water. Oh dear. I finally found a consistency that I felt Gooner would tolerate and grabbed my little containers. STICKY. And they smelled, and I wonder after ALL THIS WORK if she'll even like them. But with this face...

Here she has on her bath robe. I love it. She's already ready for her own personal spa day!