Claire has been making Jack lots of different types of mushed-up food for the past few weeks or so now. She has been following the recipes from an ‘Annabel Karmel’ baby cook-book, and has been doing a fantastic job too!
- Broccoli and Potato
- Pea and Potato
- Carrot and Sweet corn
- Sweet Potato and Broccoli
- Apple and Oats
- Courgette and Sweet Potato
- Steak and Chips
Ok, maybe not the Steak and Chips, but I’m sure that’ll come soon!
Anyway – I (to be entirely honest) was quite surprised how she went about all this. Claire bought this fantastic little steamer/blender and it’s truly brilliant.
First of all, she cuts up the food into small blocks and then filled the holder inside the blender cup – this not only has a blade in, but also has an inlet hole at the top that the steam comes in through to cook the food.
Once the food has been steam-cooked, the holder inside the blender cup is removed, allowing the food to sit directly onto the blender-blade at the bottom and is mixed with water to soon turn it to mush.
Then, these tiny little pots (which have appeared from nowhere) get filled, date-stamped and sent to the freezer until needed, all done in a factory-line style.
When the pots are out of the freezer, Claire leaves them to defrost overnight in the fridge and then zaps them in the microwave for about 10 seconds to warm them up. Then, we have to wait 10 minutes for it to cool down again before we try to feed them to Jack, during which we mostly have to smile and laugh to him so that he thinks that the mushy, strange-tasting stuff in his mouth is ok, before repeating with the next spoonful.7
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