lol addictediam you might be right, whilst it was cooking i had DP and his parents salivating over it and saying that it wouldn't be a problem if DS didn't like it as they'd happily eat it! (as a non-curry eater i am determined DS was going to love it, and he does phew :) )
if you have (or can buy) an electric steamer it makes life so much easier and keeps the food more nutritious. Things we've done include putting some chicken thighs and drumsticks in the oven to cook, then filling the steamer with a mixture of new potatoes and carrot in the bottom layer, broccoli and cauliflower in the second layer, and then put a salmon fillet in the top layer with onion/garlic/peas or sliced runner beans. Whilst it's all cooking , make a decent quantity of cheese sauce (200ml milk, 20g flour 20g butter and 8 tablespoons of cheese i think - doing it from memory right now and we also add a decent sprinkling of tesco's italian herbs).
When cooked, mix the chicken with some of the potatoes, peas or beans, carrot, and some heinz chicken baby gravy, or use some of the water from the base of the steamer, to thin it to the right consistency.
Then mix the salmon with some of the potatoes, broccoli/cauliflower, peas or beans, garlic, carrot and onion and add some full fat milk to thin it to the right consistency.
Then use some of the potatoes, garlic and broccoli/cauliflower and onion and mix it with some of the cheese sauce.
If you have time, we also wash and finely slice up 2 to 3 leeks and cook these in a frying pan for a few minutes with a small amount of butter, and then mix these with potatoes, garlic, and the rest of the cheese sauce.
That gives us 4 different sets of meals for the freezer for DS which takes us less than an hour to do (it possibly helps that we grow our own veg so often have lots of fresh stuff on hand, and tubs of chopped onions, beans etc in freezer and tonnes of potatoes stored in the garage and lots of garlic hanging in storage too lol) And he loves them all :)
Also tried the lentil/sweet potato one from AK and the butternut squash pasta one, lentil one took a few weeks but he enjoys it now, the pasta was an instant hit. Also done a mackeral dish for him (which was something we had for tea) - grilled mackeral which we then flaked and deboned for him, mixed in the food processor with new potatoes, mixed with the following that i cooked on the hob - dash of olive oil, finely chopped red/green/orange pepper, chopped onion/garlic, courgettes sliced and quartered, sliced runner beans, chopped tomatoes, italian herbs, paprika and ground black pepper. He loved it. Will try doing it next time with Wahoo steaks, as they are an oily fish too but should be a lot less hassle to prepare than deboning an entire mackeral!!! (Wahoo steaks came from Regal Fish website, but DP couldn't find them in the freezer....)
Have also done a roast duck dinner which he loved, same principle as the chicken one, and DP did a beef casserole but DS wasn't as keen on that but we are perservering.
Hope these give you a few more ideas so you can embrace weaning and make it an enjoyable experience for you both :)