Baby food

Well, since Stu didn't take pictures of his amazing creations this week, I decided to go ahead and post about making baby food. There are tons of different ways to make it, but I think using what you already have is the easiest. We were given a food processor for our wedding over three years ago. At the time, I had no idea what to do with it other than make pesto. I am so glad we have it now! Stu went on a fruit buying spree this week so I figured that as Jackson munched on Happybaby puffs, that I would go ahead and make some of it baby friendly. See, we got the green light to begin yogurt with Jax. But upon tasting the YoBaby brand, we both thought it was unnecessarily sweet. So we decided to just get some Nancy's whole milk yogurt and mix some pureed fruits in. I made plums and apples and these are my steps!

I think we had only about five plums. I started by trying to peel them with my awesome peeler....nope. So then I tried cutting them in half....still hard to get the pit out. So I found that cutting them in quarters makes it super easy to peel with a paring knife and also easy to get the pit out. As you can see, the last plum was obviously a red one. Beautiful!

I cut them into chunks, steamed for a few minutes, then pureed. These containers are from Williams-Sonoma. My awesome Aunt Sharon gave them to us out of the blue and we love them! They are truly the perfect portion size and I totally recommend them if you have some extra cash. The lids kind of snap on and go straight in the freezer.

I did the apples pretty much the same way, using the same water to be all earth friendly, and whatnot. I peeled them(with the vegetable peeler this time), cored them, and then steamed for about 7 minutes. I like to use a short steam time to keep in as much good stuff as possible.

I guess we'll start signing out entries so you can know who the writer is. It will probably be pretty obvious as I like making baby food and baking. And Stu likes....everything else!

Amanda