Hannah’s supply of pumpkin comes from Cold Storage’s organic fresh food section. This is a regular item on the shelf. It is of a Japanese variety and hence its sweetness is guaranteed.
Pumpkin is one of the easiest veggy to puree. It can be easily mashed with a spoon after cooking. I like to puree it with garden peas and chicken breast meat. No water is needed. The preparation is really simple: chop the pumpkin into small cubes and steam them together with garden peas for 15 minutes. Boil chicken meat for 10 minutes. Mash the veggies and shred the chicken into tiny bits. Mix the veggies with the meat and stir well. Serve warm :)
Hi Hi, need advice. I trying to cook more food for my 7.5mths old girl, if i do chicken, i got to puree it for now right? Shredding it is not ok for she is so young without teeth?? please advice and if you do not mind, recipe for 8mths old baby. Thanks thanks, running out of ideas.
Thanks for the visitation to our blog, Ivy. Ling will probably reply late tonight, but in the mean time, her blog entries on Baby recipes are here:
http://www.chekyang.com/musings/category/recipes/
Hi Ivy,
You’re right about pureeing the chicken if your baby has no teeth yet. I’d normally put all the steamed veggies and meat into my blender and puree. When Hannah started to grow teeth, I’d shred the chicken finely with 2 forks to encourage chewing. :)
Except for the recipes for adults, most of the recipes I have put up on our blog (see http://www.chekyang.com/musings/category/recipes/) are suitable for 8 months old babies. Just take a look at the ingredients and you’ll know whether your baby could have them according to your plan of introducing new foods to her. After you have scrolled all the way down, there should be some more if you click on ‘Previous Entries’ on the bottom left-hand corner. Examples of suitable recipes are:
1) Cream of Tofu
2) Chicken porridge
3) Salmon porridge
4) Cottage Pie (you could replace beef with pork or fish)
5) Sweet Potato puree
Hope that you might find them useful. :)
wa, ling you’re becoming v pro about baby food… maybe can quit and write a book soon haha then CY has a book, you also have one hahaha
Hi Ann,
You flatter me :)
Seriously, the above info is readily available on the Internet…i’d be super paiseh to write a book on baby foods!
Hi Ling, thanks for your reply, finally find some Me time to surf net cos my girl has been on & off sick. I really like your recipes, browse through and like to try those adult recipes too. U are a great cook!
Hi Ivy,
Glad to hear from you again :) I’m sorry to hear about your girl’s plight. Hope that she is stronger and tougher now :)
I like to cook but am far from being great. But thanks for the encouragement! Makes my day :)
Ling, are you japanese? Ur food sometimes look japanese… i really think your food look so delicious even for the baby porridge hehe. Yes she is much stronger now, petite girl so am trying to feed her more variety of food cos for now its always pumpkin, peas, brocolli, carrot, running out of ideas sometimes. Saw ur new porridge recipe, cant wait for the day my girl can take green leafy veg.
Hi Ivy,
Me no Japanese la. Hee hee. I’m a Chinese Singaporean. :)
Glad to hear that your girl is better now. :) Hannah used to fall sick frequently when we had her at a nearby infant care centre. She hasn’t fallen ill after we got her a nanny. Now I can really understand why children could fall sick so easily at childcare centres.
BTW, once you have started your girl on leafy veg, you could add it to almost any type of porridge. From what I gather, many parents start with spinach. I’d chiffonade and then dice the leaves and throw them into the porridge at the last 15 mins of cooking. :)