ABC Bolgonaise

Baby S's first taste of pasta, bolognaise style..

I used ABC pasta because I thought this was soft enough. I've tried the organic, baby pasta stars b4 but I felt they were hard to cook and despite cooking till the outside was soft and mushy, the inside was still hard..

Ingredients:
Cooked pasta of your choice (whatever is suitable for baby.)
Garlic
Onion
Dried oregano
tomato paste (I used organic, no salt added paste)
seeded, skinned diced tomato
minced meat
Chicken/ Vege stock (I used two ice cube portion of stock)
other vege of your choice (So far I have used french beans. green peas and broccoli, all work well for taste, texture and colour contrast)
Cheddar cheese

Fry garlic and onion in one drop of vegetable oil until frragrant. Then add in meat and stir/ separate while its cooking. Then add in tomato, about a teaspoon of tomato paste, 2 ice cubes of chicken stock, oregano and let it all come to boil and cook for about 5 mins.

Just before taking it off the fire, add in about a teaspoon to one table spoon of cheddar cheese (I use the pre shredded one) and mix it in until melted. Add a dash of pepper, stir and dish onto cooked pasta.

Serve to a hungry baby


DId she enjoy it?


ALL GONE! Even protested that mummy S didnt let her finish these last few remaining pieces of pasta..


The type of tomato paste i used. Any type will do, as long as its salt free...


Another variation of the bolognaise sauce, with the addition of french beans instead..

Salmon with cheesy garlic mashed potatoes

I got bored of giving BabyS porridge and decided to give her 'western' food..

This is a good dish becos you can use the same ingredients to create a dish for the whole family to share..

Baby's version:

finely chopped broccoli

finely shredded carrots

potatoes

salmon

garlic

cheddar cheese

milk (fresh or formula/ breast milk)

Unsalted butter (small amount)

Pepper

Boil the potatoes till soft. (i put in one small clove of garlic at the same time)

Steam broccoli and carrots till done.

Steam salmon till done.

Mash potatoes, garlic, milk, unsalted butter, pepper and cheddar cheese and mix well.

Put potato onto plate and assemble broccoli, carrots and salmon on top.

Or you can mix all the potato and vegetables together and serve it this way

Adult Version:

Broccoli

Carrots

potatoes (Can boil together with baby's portion)

salmon

Garlic clove (to boil with potatoe)

Sliced garlic

cheddar cheese

milk (fresh / powdered milk)

Unsalted butter

Teiyaki sauce

Prepare potatoes in the same way as you would for baby's portion but you may add in more salt according to taste. (I added in bacon bits for mine)

Wash salmon and pat dry. Then pat corn flour onto whole surface and pan fry. If you leave the skin on, pay fry the skin side first. Leave it till cooked (when the fish is sufficiently cooked on one side, it will detach from the surface if u move it gently. If not it will stick) Then turn it over to other side to finish cooking.

When you turn the salmon to the other side, throw in some slices of garlic to let it carmalise and add more flavour to the fish. When fish is cooked, add in teriyak sauce and dilute it with a tiny bit of water.

Remove fish and garlic and place on plate.

Using the same pan, add in more garlic and vegetables. leave till cooked. You may wish to add in more sauce if you prefer.

POrky POrky POrridge!

If you dont take pork, feel free to swap the meat for chicken.. works just as well..

Pork, broccoli and wolfberry porridge

Pork, spinach, egg yolk and wolfberries porridge.

pork, broccoli, cauliflower and carrot porridge

For all veges (except potatoes, carrots, etc. all the hard veges), i usually put it in midway or when it is almost cooked.. i also like to put in a clove or two of garlic into the porridge right from the start. adds taste, fragrance and boosts immunity..

different styles of chicken porridge..

All the different kinds of combi u can have with chicken in porridge..


Chicken and Apple porridge


It may sound weird to pair apple and chicken in a savoury porridge but its actually quite nice!

I give to BabyS when she has diarrhoea becos rice and Apple are good for stopping diarrhoea. Any type of red apple will do.

Put rice, chicken stock and chicken into slow cooker to cook. Midway, put in chopped vegetables (1 table spoon of raw chopped vegetable per portion of porridge. I used nai bai leaves here) and finaly diced apples. The apples will further disintergrate after cooking.

Chicken and Brocolli with egg yolk (give egg yolk only after 8 months)

Purple sweet potato, green vege and chicken porridge.. the purple sweet potato made the whole pot of porride purple!