December 2011 (drop-in) - The Trouble With Dribbles

[LittleMissFlustered]

Maybe its a Southerners thing aye Oi!

DSM I'd replace with light soft brown sugar if you have it.

Crosspost...already answered :)

I want cake now! Double chocolate with chocolate ganache mmmmm but my arse is fat enough as it is! Myfitnesspal not working for me, it's back to ww points.

There's a courgette cake in the nigella book which I'm tempted to try actually. Well, I would be if it wasn't for aforementioned fat arse/points counting. Carrot cake is yum so why not courgette? I made a carrot cake actually for my wedding-Rachel Allen recipe-it was fab!

honey, out fave board books are "my cat likes to hide in boxes", and Each Peach Pear Plum. There's also a great tactile board book (you can buy it secondhand/stored on Amazon) called "fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy" that is very simple and extremely funny if you're willing to do silly voices (especially for the page with the pig wearing shades. "Smooooth. Oh my": you read it and then go back to the beginninng as many times as y)

Here is the recipe:

225g Sweet potatoes (boiled,drained & mashed)
125g plain chocolate, chopped
125g butter
75g soft muscovado sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
160g self raising flour
15g cocoa powder
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda
2 tbsp milk

Preheat oven to 160c. Line a 2lb loaf tin with greaseproof paper.
Chop the chocolate or use chocolate drops.

Beat together the butter, sugar, vanilla essence & eggs. Add the flour, cocoa powder & bicarb of soda. Add milk & beat until smooth & creamy.

Stir in the mashed sweet potato & chopped chocolate. Put all the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 1-1.5hrs until firm to touch.

fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy

It's not just a Northern thing Oi. That sounds very wrong to me too. Seems like you could take the sweet potato out of that recipe and have a perfectly good chocolate cake! As mopsy says though, I do love a carrot cake.

Well it's in the oven.... I'll post a pic on FB when I get it out.

Hi all! Not much going on at the moment. I gave DS some mashed banana and baby rice, and although he liked it, it turned him into a grizzly bum with a dodgy tum, so I'm holding off weaning for a little longer. It's been two years since DH and I got together today, so hopefully DS will go to sleep early so we can 'celebrate' :o

I will attempt to take DS swimming one day this week.

Determined what is baby sensory and is it any good?

Just picked up BOi from nursery, - he's accepting a bottle - no problem!! Hurrah!!

Sorelip I love baby sensory and so does Sky. It introduces her to new touches, singing, signing and you learn a few things too!

Oi Well done to BOi for accepting a bottle

Nice one Oi! BOi is doing well! Having had screen off last week am now dreading leaving minimopsy in nursery on Thursday.

Think will have a bath with some lovely Jo Malone bath oil later. Would loooove a glass of wine as well but it's a school night booo!

I meant a week off not screen off. Autocorrect is so annoying!

Hello!

I am vaguely around - I read the thread, then run out of time to post! Been very busy with home ed stuff mostly, lots of trips out and days with my house full of feral home ed children.

Miri has made a few spirited attempts to wean herself. She dove head first into a bowl of strawberries last week, but she isn't quite able to co-ordinate getting things into her mouth yet (she is 20 weeks), I think she will be starting bang on 26 weeks. The other two were both later than that. She has been rolling for a while and is doing very amusing sit ups which involve lots of arm and leg waving.

oi yay to co-operative Boi!

Beetroot and chocolate cake is goooood. Veg in cake makes for dense fudgey cakes. I like the sound of the sweet potato dsm, I like sweet potato pie too. And carrot cake muffins. And courgette cake when we have a glut. Erm, just like cake really

I am dying to make carrot cake now!!

Also really must try the beetroot in chocolate cake - it's supposed to be yummy!

It came out alright - I think!

I made a non-chocolatey beetroot cake & didn't like it at all but OH & FIL both loved it. Could taste the beetroot too much which was weird. It had cranberries & mixed spices I think; it was from the Nigella xmas book. A chocolate one would definitely be better.

Just got in a strop with OH; I was trying eat dinner before getting DS to sleep but he was tired & started crying so I was trying to get him to sleep quickly but OH kept waking him with his stupid loud whispering Slightly irrational I know as he was obviously trying to be quiet but I've been up since 3:30am. He's gone out now to practice snooker so I may just bin dinner as it's cold now & go to bed. :(

Hlc If it helps I had similar dinner problems just finished making it lo wigged out as was tired, tried to get him to sleep wasn't having it so ended up giving him a bottle with 1 hand, balancing bottle on chin or boobs so could eat dinner with the other hand. Lo now has pasta sauce down the legs of his suit so must change him before bed

Evening all!
Glad to see you around MsB, I was wondering where you were. Glad to hear Miri is taking BLW to its extreme conclusion !
Glad you've landed safely too mopsy. DS only gets one guarenteed tummy time daily so his neck folds can dry off- no idea if DP is doing any more.

Funny how we all seem to get bad nights and good nights simultaneously- DS didn't feed last night at all. Woke once at one-ish, and got his dummy; he woke again at 5, and DP popped his dummy in whilst he went and sorted the bottle, and on his return a minute later DS was asleep again. Very glad to hear it in your case Mimsy!

City played far better than Utd last night DSM, but we won't talk about that...

I have exactly the same issue Kate. Trying to bf DS in public at the moment is a nightmare. Giving him a lunchtime feed when we're having lunch out is impossible, he just wants to look around and join in, so I end up almost wrestling him onto the boob, and then giving in! Dropping a cloth over his head doesn't work either, sod it.

Dinnertime calls...

We had an anti-distinctly-minty bedtime routine today with DS alternatively wailing loudly, and jumping on and off the boob between wails. Hard to make myself heard reading stories, and DDs took
In turns to accidently fall off things/squash each other. Oh joy.
Still all is quiet now.

DS was 17 weeks today: celebrated by giving him a dab of my Dad's plum jam. He pulled some cool faces as he tried to decide if i was about to jump on him with a bottle of formula. I am in no rush to wean him properly but he's getting whatever I feel like: I am not trendy enough for baby led weaning, though I thoroughly approve of finger food! Will have to wait til 6 months for the cool powdered fruity cereal though, as none of them are gluten/dairy free. Will sit him in the highchair while we eat tomorrow and see how well he can sit up.

Another fidgety baby here too, always flinging himself backwards to have a good look around, and exposing me in the process. I try to get him in a headlock, but he's stronger than me.

Northern More shocked about the Roy Hodgson appt for England manager by the FA!

Aethel Sky has one meal one day and 2 the next as I don't want to overload her tummy.

Sky had a poomageddon this afternoon, up her back, onto her vest etc. She has now been put in her cot awake and think she has gone to sleep. Will aim to dream feed her after Crimewatch and hopefully have another good night like last night.