Meal ideas for 11mnth old.....help

[kitty17]

Hi guy's my DD is 11mnths and is generally good with his food, he is wanting finger food more and more and im running out of ideads, can anyone give me some more meal time foods.....

Sorry..I used an online delia recipe.

Also made dd some cereal and yoghurt bars, but they had a lot of sugar, so am not repeating them, unless i take out sugar.

Also have yummy recipe for cheese and apple scones if wanted.

oohh fizz buzz - i wouldnt mind the recipe for the scones please.

Here it is.
Oaty Cheese and Apple Scones

These scones are a little more special than the plain and sultana types. It's nice to make them in a smaller, more dainty size for the afternoon tea plate. The mix of sweet and savoury flavours contrasts beautifully with cakes and sandwiches. They also freeze well or can be made in the larger size for elevensies.
Makes 30 x 4cm / 1 1/2 inch scones

200g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
50g butter
50g medium oatmeal
1 tsp sugar
125g Cheddar, Wensleydale or other mild English cheese, cut into small cubes
1 dessert apple, peeled, cored and chopped into small pieces
5 tbsp buttermilk plus extra for brushing over the tops.

Preheat the oven to 200C. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Rub in the butter using your fingertips until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then stir through the oatmeal and sugar. Stir in the cheese and apple pieces followed by the buttermilk. Bring the dough together with your hands and pat into a round disc on a floured surface.

Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 2cm/ 3/4 inch. Use a 4cm/1 1/2inch pastry cutter to cut out round scones (or you can just make little square ones using a knife). Reform the trimmings to make more and lay on a baking sheet. Brush the tops with the extra buttermilk and bake for 15 minutes until risen and nicely browned.

fizzbuzz - whats your receipe for the cheese straws...
will try the scones out on him

Thanks for fab sounding scone recipe. Will definitely try them on DS and report back (my cooking is not v good tho).

Those cheese straws are absolutely lethal. I
like sweet foods generally, but you can eat those damn things straight from freezer.

Dd hardly got any

I just used normal cheddar.
You have been warned!!

Cooking time less than 10 min

Quick and easy to make, cheese straws are just a very buttery, cheesy pastry. It is important that the cheese you use is really strong and well flavoured.
Ingredients
100g/3½oz butter, plus extra for greasing
150g/5¼oz mature cheddar cheese, or a mixture of cheddar and Parmesan
100g/3½oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting the work surface
cayenne pepper
freshly ground black pepper
1 free-range egg yolk
soured cream, to serve (optional)

Method

1. Heat oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7. Lightly grease a large baking sheet with butter and cover it with a piece of baking parchment.
2. Finely grate the cheese into a mixing bowl. Sift in the flour and add a sprinkling of cayenne pepper (remember it can be very spicy). Add some freshly ground black pepper and mix.
3. Cut the butter into little cubes and rub them into the mixture with your fingertips. When the butter has almost disappeared into the flour and you have a crumbly mixture, stir in the egg yolk with a butter knife.
4. Gather the pastry into a ball of dough (it should come together very easily). Dust the work surface with plenty of flour. Carefully roll out the cheese dough into a rough square. It should be about 5mm thick. Neaten the edges with the side of your hand.
5. With a sharp knife, cut the square into strips, then each strip into fingers. Gently lift them on to the lined baking sheet, leaving a little space between each one.
6. Wearing oven gloves, place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for about eight minutes, but check after five or six minutes, as oven temperatures vary. The cheese straws should be a very pale golden brown. They are fragile when they come out of the oven, so leave them to sit for five minutes before you try to move them. Then carefully lift up the baking parchment and transfer everything to a wire rack to cool for a few more minutes.
7. Eat them when they are still warm from the oven, either on their own or dipped into a bowl of soured cream.

I didn't use any pepper either.

Wow thank you so much for typing all that out. I will get cooking one day soon! I finally made the famous lemon drizzle cake today - it turned out to be lemon collapsed cake. Even DS refused it...

I didn't type it. I cut and pasted it

Remember they are absolutely lethal, possibly the nicest thing I have ever tasted.

thanks for the recipe, will have to get to the shops now and then getting making...thanks