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Posted by Monstermum on 15 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: BLW, Recipes of sorts
A fab easy lunch to whizz up in no time - pasta, peas & pesto. This may have been Monster’s first attempt at pesto but he ate it with gusto and only attacked the peas once most of the pasta was gone. yum!
Stilton Potatoes
Posted by Monstermum on 01 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: BLW, Recipes of sorts
It is actually advised not to give babies mould ripened or soft cheese. I think the same rules when you’re pregnant apply to babies. No idea what the magic ages is for being allowed something as delicious as stilton but I decided it was 10 months and 1 week 
(we were given some ripe stilton, had loads of potatoes it seemed a natural conclusion).
So, how’d I make ‘em? Well, I boiled a load of tatties, bunged them in a dish, poured over some milk and sprinkled on the cheese with a bit of thyme. Covered the dish with foil and cooked it on ooh about 180c (we have a super duper new fan oven which cooks heard ‘n’ fast) for 45 minutes. I then took the foil off and cooked it until it was golden & crunchy enough on top for my taste. (I did say before I’m not great at writing recipes 
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Monster devoured his potatoes and probably had the equivalent of a medium sized baked potato not to mention his first taste of the blue stuff. He hasn’t come down with listeriosis so it might be on the menu for lunch again today just to finish it off!
Lunch
Posted by Monstermum on 24 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: BLW, Recipes of sorts
Well Monster had a lovely lunch today with his friend. Potatoes, corgette, trout, some apple rice cakes and some amazing banana pancake which Monster loved.
Monster really isn’t too keen on boiled / steamed potatoes. To be honest, he’s not that keen on roasties either. I guess they’re a bit bland compared to other amazing stuff like meat or fish. However, Monster ate most of his potato so a very good guest indeed
The trout was a new fish to try and he struggled with the flakes although did try to stuff his face with a fistful! He ended up letting me put tiny flake by tiny flake in his mouth. It’s so cute when he does that!
The corgette was completely avoided - its green, need I say more?!
The apple rice cakes were organix apple & cinnamon baby rice cakes. They tasted sweet & kind of sticky on top. Monster loved his and tried to swipe Zooey’s too! He’s learning bad habits at nursery, clearly!!
And then there was the banana pancake. Zooey’s mum made them with wholemeal flour, formula milk, mashed banana and egg. Just your normal pancake but with mashed banana too. They looked just like a thicker, darker pancake. Monster wolfed his down so I’m going to have to try this at home
Sausages
Posted by Monstermum on 18 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: BLW, Recipes of sorts
I baked some sausages for dinner tonight with tomatoes, herbs, onion & garlic. It was a copy of Jamie’s recipe so the inspiration can’t be claimed. Monster decided that the only thing that anyone could possibly want to eat are sausages. He ate half a very fat cumberland Totally avoided the veg and just sat there munching away and spitting the odd bit of skin.
Clearly I should have tried them before!
Smoked Mackerel fishcakes
Posted by Monstermum on 20 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Recipes of sorts
1 standard packet of smoked mackerel, skin & bone the fish
2 handfuls of small or new potatoes
1 small onion, chopped
4 small cloves of garlic, chopped
Handful of frozen peas
Coriander, fresh, chopped
Breadcrumbs
You will need a large mixing bowl and a greased baking tray.
Pre-heat oven to 180C. Sorry, I can’t convert that for you, I’m too lazy!
Cook the potatoes. We kept the skins on.
Bone the fish and mash in a large mixing bowl.
Quickly brown the onion and garlic in oil - we used sesame for some reason but normally use olive.
Add onion and garlic to fish in the mixing bowl.
Mash the cooked potatoes and add to the mixture.
Boil the peas for about 5 minutes and then add to the mixture.
Add coriander and mix together.
Shape into patties - we made 7 fairly large patties.
Roll in breadcrumbs.Cook about 15 minutes per side in the oven to crisp up the breadcrumbs.
Monster absolutely loved these. It was his first taste of mashed potato - and the fish of course. We had to keep squishing the fishcake together again so he could keep on eating!
Moroccan Stew
Posted by Monstermum on 17 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Recipes of sorts
Well this was something that Monsterdad cooked up and his cooking methods are chuck it in a pan & stir but we had:
Lamb, aubergine tomatoes & carrots on the usual base of onions & garlic all mixed in with a variety of Monsterdad’s favourite “Morrocan” herbs & spices.
You see why I call this category recipes of sorts!
We had ours with couscous but I just gave Monster a variety of vegetables and lamb. We were avoiding aubergine at the time but of course the sauce would have some in the sauce I guess.
Monster tried the carrots and didn’t seem that bothered either way and then he found the lamb. That’s when the lip-smacking started! We were there for what seemed like hours but was actually about 45 minutes while Monster sucked away at the slow cooked chunks of lamb that he’d been given. As the meat had been slowly cooked, it fell apart easily so Monster sucked & sucked until the chunks were too small to pick up!