Sunday, January 18, 2009

Rice cereal



Well The Babe with the Power started on solid food a couple of weeks ago and I didn't want to buy the commercial baby rice cereal that is generally recommended as a first food because it is not whole grain and it is so processed. Instead I broke out my grain mill and a bag of whole grain brown rice. I ground the rice into flour and cooked some with water to make pretty much like a porridge, then I just scooped the amount I needed into a bowl and for the first few feedings added a little liquid to thin down for him. Now that we are introducing other foods too we mix whatever we are giving him with his cereal to get him familiar with the taste and texture before we give it to him alone. So far bananas are the favorite.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Holiday baking


As usual I did a bunch of baking for the holidays although in comparison to years past I really slacked this year. I made sugar cookies, jam thumbprint cookies using my homemade strawberry jam, pumpkin roll and venetians. The venetians came out awesome, I found chocolate transfer sheets to put on them. I couldn't get a great picture, but they say Merry Christmas.