Cute Banana Muffin for Toddler

I always wanted to make some sweet dessert for my little YiWen, but never have such "Ohmm" until i saw this recipe from Cooking Grave by Amy Ong. Her banana muffins look so tempting! I think my muffins are lacking baking powder. Should put more to make it puff up. :P

I found the muffins a bit starchy. According to my mum, she said i put too much flour. I guess so.. next round, I'll try to reduce it. This is also the first time my hubby gave me a hand in the wet kitchen. He helped me to mix the barter well. Of coz, need to sacrify my ears.. he told me all his hero story on how he taught ppl to make cake/muffin and blah blah blah.. merepek aje.. :P Btw, my hubby loves muffin. He told me he save money during his study time in Europe just to buy a muffin.

Though, i think my muffins has failed (due to starchiness) but my YiWen loves it! Look at how enjoyable she was.. :D She is really a big love of my life.. :)

For those who wanna try this, visit Cooking Grave by Amy Ong for the recipe ya!

Wordless: Saturday Lunch for YiWen

Holland Peas Soup (Good for eyes)

Nowadays YiWen already started to eat solid food. She loves to drink soup. Just like her mom.. hehe.. So every weekend, I will for sure boil soup for her. She will eat rice with the soup. Usually she will wallop 1 full bowl of it. SiOK!

Wordless: Sunday Lunch 24-01-2010

From Left to Right: Mint Leaves Omelette and Asam Pedas Petai (Specially for my mom)

Lunch on Saturday 16-01-2010

Background: ABC Soup

Top: Stir-Fried Petai with Roasted Pork

Bottom: Pork Nuggets with Potatoes

My DH loves petai very much. But he can't take hot spicy food. So i got to revamp a new recipe for him. Easier for me too.. no need to prepare those chili stuff and har-mai..:P

My gal loves the pork nuggets that i made.. She ate 3 pieces.. hehehe.. So happy le.. :P She finished up a bowl of soup with some rice in it. Happy that she loves my cooking.. :)

Potato & Carrot & Dried Scallops Porridge

This is the porridge that I made last weekends for YiWen. Healthy and with full of vitamins for your lit' one! Try it!

Ingredients:
1 Potato
1 Carrot
1.5 Dried Scallops
Mixture of Brown and White Rice

Steps:
1. Cut potato and carrot into cubes
2. Soak the dried scallops in hot water and once it turns soft, peel it into small slices
3. Boil the rice
4. Put (1) and (2) along with water that used to soak the dried scallops into the mixture of rice
5. Cook and stir until mixture thicken enough to coap spoon. (If you have no time to stir until it thicken, once you notice it turns lumpy, just put into food processor and blend until it turns into puree)

YiWen: She loves it! :P

Fruit Purees : Pears

Though this is not the first time YiWen try on solid food. But this is actually the first time she tried on other solid food other than rice cereal and oats! Now she is reaching 6 months, she officially is declaring weaning and I'm sooooo super excited to make her variety of purees to let her taste. Lately I' m so busy collecting puree recipes from the net and I will create a blogroll for all new moms like me to refer. Save your time mah! :)

To start, I chose a simple puree which is Pears Puree. Easy!

I bought 2 pears, and some mini tupperwares from 100Yen Store.

Cut the pears into cubes, and steam it for 10-15mins. Let it cool a bit then pour into food processor and blend until it turn into purees form.

Finally, pour into the tupperware and fridge it. FYI, you can keep fruit and vegetables purees up to 2 days in fridge and 6 month in freezer.

YiWen's reaction: She loves it!

First Solid Food

YiWen started on solid food at 4.5 months with approval from her paediatrician. Her very first food was nestle cereal (green can). Wanted to buy Nestle brown rice but worried she may not like it.So to play safe I bought typical one. Ya.. she loves it! Now she is 5.5 months and I plan to start to give her oats. Oats is very nutritions and it will not cause constipation whereas cereal would.

I bought this in an Organic Shop nearby my house. I blended it to fine powder texture so that I do not need to cook it. Just add enough hot boiling water to dissolve it and then add breast milk/ formula milk and finally serve to your baby. Easy right? You may add appricot or banana in it too. :)