Fish Rice Porridge with Carrots for My Baby

This morning, and also yesterday, I made fish rice porridge with carrots for Zharif. As usual, I made extra which I pack for his lunch half of the portion while store it in the freezer the remaining portion for his dinner. Apparently, the humble rice porridge turned out to be very delicious and smells good too. I added salt and some pepper to the portion that supposedly to be chilled and packed as my breakfast. 

Baby's Bread Pudding with Banana

I made bread pudding with banana last Sunday in my brand new red ramequin. This time I prepared a pictorial version of the recipe. A few of friends asked me to include step-by-step pictures on the food in the making. I will try my best. This is so easy; it required only three main ingredients. Give it a try mommy. 

In a clean and dry ramequin, grease the inner surface with some unsalted butter.

Fill in the ramequin with diced sandwich bread. I used two slices for two ramequins.

Then, top the bread cubes with diced banana.

Pour in fresh milk enough to almost covering the bread. Poke a few times to allow the bread cubes to absorb the milk. Set aside for a few allowing the bread to absorb the milk.

While on that, prepare the steamer. Steam the pudding mixture for 15-20 minutes. Or, you can also bake until the bread no longer stick to your fork when poke.

Enjoy it while it is warm or cold. It’s yummy and I am going to make another version of bread pudding with (of course) sugar and salt in it for me! No sugar and salt for babies, okay! 

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Packing Home Made Solid Food for The Little One

We are off to Malacca, The Historical City for 2 days. I brought along my boys and husband. I'm here for an official meeting and had to bring along the kids since it's weekend and it is not possible for my husband to handle the kids all alone.

Since my baby boy refuse to eat processed baby food, I had to figure out ways to pack home cooked solid food for him.What I did was, boiled potatoes cube, sweet pumpkin cube, baby peas and plain rice porridge. For the potatoes, sweet pumpkin and baby peas, drain the water completely and set aside to cool before putting on the container lid.

When completely cool, store the in cooler bag with ice pack. Store the cool plain rice porridge as well. Bring along a few packs of unsalted butter as flavoring. I avoid using animal base flavoring ie. chicken stock since it will spoil faster with out proper reheating.

Store the food ration in hotel room mini fridge immedietly after checking in. Before serving the food to the baby, take out only the portion you wanted. Immerse with hot water for 5-8 minutes and drain. Mash the vegetables with same butter and serve. Lucky my baby's weaning bowl comes with these tiny texture that allow food to be mashed easily.

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Rice Pudding with Banana and Oats

Rice Pudding with Banana and Oats

We had a few ripe bananas on the dining table. Some are too ripe I can barely make anything with it. I was planning to make banana teabread for Ameer but I don't think the amount of bananas we have are enough. Instead of making teabread, I decided to make banana rice pudding for Zharif. It has natural sweetness and smells good. Best serve both warm and cold.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup full cream milk

2 tbs. rolled oats

1/2 cup roughly chopped ripe banana

1/2 cup plain rice porridge

Preparations:

1. Heat milk in a saucepan. Then add in the oats and stir well.

2. Add in bananas and let it simmer for a few minutes then stir in rice porridge.

3. Let it simmer for a few minutes until the banana is cooked thoroughly. Add more milk if it is too dry.

4. You may mash the banana while the mixture is simmering or puree it later to your baby liking.

5. Turn of the heat and serve. Chill the remaining portion.

If the pudding turns to brown later, that's mean your banana is undercooked. You can still serve the pudding but it won't be at its best taste after a while.

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Grilled Chicken and Sweet Pumpkin with Rice Porridge

Last week, I have lost of ideas on what to cook for my baby boy. However, an idea came to me when I had grilled vegetable for my lunch at Nando’s. I thought that it would be great to grill chicken meat for Zharif. So, this is baby version of grilled chicken and sweet pumpkin with rice.

Grilled Chicken and Sweet Pumpkin with Rice Porridge

Ingredients:

¼ cup diced chicken meat – from breast 

½ cup diced sweet pumpkin 

¼ cup diced yellow onion 

1 cup plain rice porridge 

Olive oil – you can use vegetable oil but olive oil add more flavor

Preparations: 

1. Heat some oil in a saucepan. Stir fry chicken meat until half done. 
2. Add in onion and sweet pumpkin. Stir fry until all are caramelized and start to brown. 
3. Add in some water and plain rice porridge. Let it simmer for a few minutes or until the pumpkin and chicken are thoroughly cooked.
4.  Puree to the baby liking. Chill the remaining and serve warm.

Easy Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes and Baby Potatoes with Garlic

Month ago I installed an apps, Baby Recipes to my phone. It has tons of homemade baby and toddlers food recipes. One of the recipes is Easy Garlic Potatoes- Potato Baby Food Recipes. I checked my freezer and we have baby potatoes and purple sweet potatoes. As usual, I made modification to the original recipe base on what we have in the pantry. It was SUPER DELICIOUS! I even licked the spoon. Yummy! I like it, my baby surely like it too. So, let’s check out the recipe.

Honey sweet potato, Spanish mackerel and applesauce

The first thing that crossed my mind when we arrived home from Cameron Highlands is to prepare Zharif’s meal. There’s only portion of precooked meal left in the freezer from the previous batch. I checked the freezer and I found out we still had a couple of Spanish mackerel meat and an apple. I thought these will be good to go with organic honey sweet potatoes which I bought. 

Spanish mackerel, Sweet corn and Mashed Baby Potato

My husband just got back from Cameron Highland a few weeks ago and bought some fresh organic vegetables. He went there not with us but for work. Yes, we did go there last week as one big family joining my father and mother.

Chicken, oats, broccoli and chickpeas

My baby son, Zharif is now six month old. He is now ready for solid food. I’ve fully breastfeeding him from the day he was born until today and will continues breastfeeding him until his 2^nd birthday. For the past two weeks, he only had single ingredient meal. Rice porridge, carrot puree, pumpkin puree, dates puree and a few others introduced. These are just to introduce him with some basic flavors. Other than that, I just want to make sure that he gets the idea of eating. After a few attempts, he is now ready to be feed. He seems happy whenever he saw me coming with his silicone spoon and weaning bowl in my hand.