We've been very busy with our bambino who is now seven months old. Too busy to make a lot of crazy food, test recipes and be food pedants. However (you knew there'd be a "however"), we have been making baby food. Since at least 1995, we've known that foods ingested by a pregnant mother can affect the odor (and taste?) of amniotic fluid. Then there was an NPR segment on the same issue recently. We figured that because we ate so much weird stuff (our usual fare) during Peta's pregnancy, that CJ would be up for anything. In addition to mashing up things like mango and avocado (not together!), things that Jim didn't eat until later in life, three "weird" things that we've fed him so far have been pear-broccoli-ginger, squash and lemongrass and sweet potato-spinach-cilantro-cumin. He has loved them!
So if you are adventurous eaters, don't baby your baby! Food allergies are a concern, of course, so we are introducing things slowly, one-by-one, but we like to mix it up for him. We love to cook (duh), and we don't want to be in a situation where we are making two (or more) different meals just because chicken nuggets and goldfish are the only things our kids will eat.
Pear-Broccoli-Ginger Baby Food
- Peel 6 pears, cut into quarters the long way, core them and place in a covered pot with a small amount of water.
- Peel a 2-inch piece of ginger, grate it and add it to the pears. Bring the water to a boil and turn heat down to low.
- Trim one small head of broccoli and cut into small pieces. Peel the stem and add it or compost it! Steam the broccoli but keep it dark green.
- When the pears can be pierced with a knife, add the broccoli (minus the broccoli water) and puree with an immersion blender.
- Let it cool and feed it to your youngins! Freeze the leftovers in ice cube trays and you'll have a once a day/once every two day meal.
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