First foods

[red37]

I went to green grocers to make purees for ds2,got
sweet potato
leek
mango
pear
carrot
anyone got any suggestions for nice purees.
TIA

Yes I used to give plums fairly early on - peeling them a bit of a pain though.

made lental casserole 2day, is chilling ready for freezer - thanks squarer and coolmama :)
Now for my next adventure - anybody know a good baby recipe for a rice pudding type of dessert? (for 7month old)

I've just done a normal rice pudding, with nutmeg. I would have offered it at 7m but didn't think to do puds (!) as was using Organix fruit pots (still a fave). I used the recipe on the back of the packet (just basic pudding rice from Booths). I guess you could add fruit purees etc to flavour the rice differently. It seems to freeze well.

apple and cinnimon go well with rice pudding. yummy

Great will be making rice pud tomorrow then - yummy!

Have a proper rice pudding recipe for little ones with quantities etc if that is what you are needing -

YES PLEASE!!!!

Here it is - this recipe makes about 6 baby portions so I just freeze the rest -
You will need a shallow ovenproof dish - a 1-litre pyrex-type dish is ideal.
Also - the stewed or simmered dried fruit can be changed for variety - you can also stir in jam or syrup to plain rice pudding.

15g butter
50g pudding rice
2 tblspns caster sugar
600mls milk
1 tspn vanilla essence

grease dish and put rice, sugar, milk and vanilla essence in and stir well. Add in remaining butter.
Bake in oven pre-heated to 150C or 300F for about 2 hours - stirring once or twice so nothing sticks or burns.

If you want to add fruit then while the pudding is cooking you can either simmer 2 tblspns of raisins or dried fruit in about 100mls of apple juice or just take the cheat route and add any bog-standard fruit puree to taste.
And, as we say at home, Bob's your Uncle!!

Thanx coolmama. And this is suitable for a 7month old?
Have all the ingrediants already so am going to do it now!! While I'm motivated (not often motivated to cook!!) :o

It is probably okay if your 7-month old is a little deveoped in terms of weaning - little bitty pieces of rice either appeal or not IYSWIM - and I would just make the plain stuff and skip the chopped fruit - why don't you make up a batch and then decide if your lo will like or not? Happy rice pudding!

aargh! Sorry Jmum6 - didn't see your timing request. I just bung them in and leave them (but at least an hour at a guess). I'm going to do that rice pudding for my 15 month old as it sounds good.

Babyonboard.... thankyou!!!! I'm seeing some groundnut oil on my very next shopping list

Yep I left the lent cass for about an hour - going to try it for ds dinner in a bit so fingers crossed - hope he likes it as now have freezer full of it!!!

Lental cass bit succes and it's a bit lumpier which he seemed to cope with well.
Right now to try rice pud........