liver ..... yum yum

Well it will soon be Naomi's Nanny's 'big' birthday, and also her Grandad's birthday, and so we went out for a pub lunch to celebrate with the rest of the family. Lovely pub with great food but the highchairs had no tray. Not usually a problem for BLW except that the food on the menu wasn't exactly Naomi friendly and she was asleep when we ordered but awake before it came (typical) and so she was sharing our plates rather than having her own.

But DH had liver, bacon & mash and she was wolfing her share. We cooked liver for her some time ago at home but we obviously didn't do it well enough as she refused it then. AND this was going in off a fork! It was the second time we'd tried her on mash and it was still a hit so we'll have to look out what potatoes we can to do it with over the summer.

I had chicken in mushroom sauce which are all flavours she loves but she also accepted RICE! off the fork! Maybe she knew it was a special special day!

more fruit rejection but thumbs up to pate

It's been a busy busy week! Ds's first full week at primary nursery year and it has just flown by. He's loving it though so that is fantastic.

It does mean we've fallen into a bit of a boring pattern. Porridge or weetabix with fruit (pot or raw) for breakfast and sandwich of some kind for lunch. Then we try and vary dinner as much as possible. I decided to try her on pate this week as we had some left over from being away at the weekend and she loved it. I know they say not until 1 but she's nearly that and it won't be a regular thing.

But she completely refused the prunes! I was a bit miffed actually as I accidentally bought the ones you have to pre-soak as they had stones in and were cheaper than the stoned ones. And I thought why pay someone else to stone them. Ho hum!

And the only thing she wants to do with cherry tomatoes is squish them *sigh*

bacon and egg loaf

Time goes so fast. Can't believe it is 10 days since I last posted. Oops. In a way nothing much to report. Naomi's eating is as good as ever & she's doing really well. She's even deigned to eat strawberries! Must be a soft fruit lover like her mother. I really struggle in the winter.

But we do have a new success. We've had a recipe thread on Naomi's birth board on BabyCentre for quite some time now and I decided I needed to save them onto my computer. Amongst them was a bacon and egg loaf. Dead easy & quick to do so I made some and she basically inhaled it whole. Went absolutely mad for it. As did ds & dh which was great too. In fact ds asked for it tonight until he was told he was getting pizza ;-)

Its all measured in cup sizes & I can see that it will be really really adaptable. And it freezes well because Naomi did have some tonight and it was just as lovely as first time round.

first teeth clean

Yes, I know, loosely related to food! But there are things going on in Naomi's life besides what she eats that I just want to keep a record of. So, tonight, we cleaned her little solitary tooth for the first time! She cut it on the 18th March but its taken time to really come through the gum enough to have a tooth brush used on it.

We had chicken kebabs cooked on the bbq tonight, yum yum. With new potatoes - the first of the season, broccoli, carrot and cabbage. Unfortunately she just sucked on the cabbage really without doing much with it. But ds gobbled it down without a murmur, yahey! He and DH had been mowing the lawn & doing other pottering so he was very hungry, but even so.

Had our first ever food refusal at dinner. DH had put green & red pepper between the chicken on the kebabs so decided to give Naomi a piece of the red, as it should have been sweeter. Well you'd think she'd been poisoned. We had angry protests not short of tears and much coughing. Maybe NOT so sweet after all! And I don't really mind since we're not likely to be giving her lots of it just at the moment. But she's eaten everything, and I mean everything, so far so it was just a bit of a surprise. And she became quite wary for a bit afterwards, insisting on having the food on her fork so she could truly inspect it.

easter away

Decided to go and visit MIL & FIL for Easter. They usually come to us as SIL lives not too far from us in their direction. But its quite a trek so thought they should have us on home turf. Managed not to pack everything but OR including the kitchen sink and set off for the sunny Fens of Cambridgeshire.

My MIL is a great cook so we had 48hrs of being fed without having to cook it or to think of a menu. Yummy chicken casserole and roast pork both easily disappeared into the gannets I seem to have for children and there was lovely Easter cake for tea along with french bread, cheese, pate, ham etc etc etc. Naomi was in seventh heaven and I think MIL & FIL really enjoyed seeing her at the table and enjoying the food they had put together for her.
She is loving using her fork but she is still going for the all in one method - that's putting all of her fingers in with the food ha ha - not quite managing it for the camera with this broccoli but she looks so cute doing it all for herself I had to post the piccy. I thought 'me do it' didn't start until they were about 18 months lol.

lots to catch up on

Just realised I haven't posted since Saturday! We've just been busy busy busy.

On Sunday we had that old staple roast chicken so it will be no surprise that she ate it! I love doing a roast, its so easy for her. It also gives me the ingredients for mini pies & mini quiches already done and I needed to do a batch of both for the freezer.

Monday: the kids had fish fingers as we were having the leftover chicken with salad and I thought it might be a bit tough for Naomi cold. It goes a bit chewy, stringy & dry and she's still only got the one tooth.

Tuesday: jacket potatoes & sausages

Wednesday: at Luke's request Daddy made lasagne, yum yum. Absolutely no good for Naomi as she doesn't seem to like mince. So she had a quiche & a pie from the new batch - good job I made them.

And that brings up to date tonight. I made a chicken pie a la Nigella. Meant cooking up some chicken breasts as there wasn't anything left from the weekend's roast. But also meant I could do some bacon at the same time. Simple white sauce, few veg & a pastry top. Voila! And easy enough to put together throughout the day as Naomi was sleeping or otherwise occupied. Not easy to do today as she's been a grumpy so and so. Don't really know why. At least her new swing was a bit hit. Couldn't find the one we bought last summer so had to go out and buy another! Worth it though just to see her smile & hear her giggle.