lazy daisy meatball

Category - food for all

We had soupy milidi for Sunday’s night dinner. As a variation, I added meatmeals as one of the ingredients. You can refer to the actual recipe with no meatball which i posted in february2006.

Here goes the recipe ‘LAZY DAISY MEATBALL’
Ingredients: -
Minced meat (I used beef)
Garlic (chopped finely)
Daun sup or celery (chopped finely)
Cracked-pepper
Corn-flour
Salt to taste

Step-by-step:-
*Make sure the washed-minced meat is thoroughly strained. If not, susah to gelek it into shape and keep it in that shape!
Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
Dab a bit of oil onto your palm.
Gelek bancuhan bulat-bulat.
Do dab a bit of oil, again inbetween (elakkan meatballs melekat2 dgn each other).

What I did was that I fried the meatballs over medium heat until ¾ cooked. Reduce oil and use the same oil to tumis bawang and whatnots for the soup. When the soup was boiling, I added the meatball.

Iman so loves this, he wouldn’t get down from his high chair until he finished his 2nd serving.

Do also have a peek at FRIED WANTAN. We’ve been snacking on these yesterday. Mdh kononnya nak goreng and bawak masa discussion with his friends Rabu nanti (we had them frozen in the fridge now) tapi taktau lah sempat ke tidak.

sweet carrot rice with milk

Category: Baby/toddler food

ATTENTION: PB, MAAF, BELUM DAPAT POST RESEPI NASI AYAM. TUKANG MASAK BUSY BUT I PROMISE IT'S COMING, OKAY.

I’ve been postponing this for too long actually. I’ve been wanting to try out this recipe but it never take off until last night.

Iman, from my observation loves ‘tau foo fah’, especially when he has to fight with kakak to get bigger share. And for me to do it myself is kinda out of question. I know it takes so long to produce. The beans has to be soaked, then bla bla, then bla bla bla. Resorting to pasar malam is a a lot more alluring, I think. Back to Iman. I want to give him something similar, something fulfilling, something sweet yet nutritious. Since ‘tau foo fah’ was out of question at 8.30 last night, I prepared him SWEET CARROT RICE with MILK.

Here goes the recipe....

Ingredients
- cooked rice
- 6 carrot cubes
- milk/formula
- water
- vanilla essence
- sugar

Step-by-step
- Add water to carrot cubes in a pan/pot
- Heat up. To expedite the process, cover pan/pot
- Once melt, add cooked-rice and a bit of water (quantity depending on the final consistency you want)
- Let to boil for 5-10 minutes.
- Add a bit of sugar (jgn banyak – not good for your baby/toddler and you as well, nanti dia jadi over-active pulak)
- Add milk/formula (last night I used Iman’s MAMIL – about 3-4 scoops)
- Add drops of vanilla essence
- Stir well
- Let it simmer for another 10 minutes
- Heat off, let to cool
- Ready to eat

As I was trying to get the best angle (ceh, macamlah ‘propeksional’ sangat ambik gambo!), the battery went dead so no gambar eh, sorry!

Selamat mencuba ya!

weekdays noodle

Category: adult food

Who says you need all sorts of things when cooking something that involves blanching and frying in the making? The tips is that, use the same utensil for all procedures.

For example, I want to prepare telur dadar, stir-fry sayur and ikan goreng. First, masak telur dadar. Using the same kuali, masak sayur pulak. Next, you may want to rinse the kuali a bit. Lapkan and panaskan minyak untuk goreng ikan pulak. In the end, you only have ONE kuali to wash. As a working mom, I can’t be cerewet and use different utensil for different type of cooking.

Also, I want to share easy peasy WEEKDAYS NOODLE. It is easy to prepare, and takes a short time also, hence the name. To accommodate the little time we have during weekdays to prepare dinner for our family.

Here goes..

Ingredients
Mee (jenis yang selalu buat wantan mee)
Chicken stock
Bawang kisar
Tomato
Fishball
Kicap
Sesame oil
Garam

Step-by-step
MEE
Put water into a wok and bring to boil.
Add cooking oil.
Drop mee into the boiling water.
Cook until just tender.
Transfer into tapis and rinse.
Add kicap and sesame oil to the mee and gaulkan sampai rata.

SOUP
Heat frozen chicken stock sampai cair.
Meanwhile, panaskan wok tadi dan masukkan minyak.
Tumis bawang kisar until fragrant.
Add chicken stock, bring to a boil.
Add fishball and tomato.
Add a bit of salt to taste (jangan masin sgt sbb mee dah digaul dengan kicap)

Ambil mee and add the soup, serve immediately (kalau tak mee ti ‘soggy’ dan jadi besar dan lembik). To beautify, garnish with potongan daun bawang dan daun sup.


mee yang digunakan. sebelum kena celur



mee tengah kena celur. kuali tu digunakan utk menumis later



chicken stock (maaf Iman, Ummi ambik seketul), melting



mee yang dah digaul kicap dan minyak bijan

taraaaa.... (takde daun bawang - kehabisan stok!)

nasi ayam day!

photos

oat in green-peas

Category: baby/toddlefood

Satu lagi resepi amat mudah. OAT in GREEN PEAS.

Ingredients:-
Oats
Green-peas cube
Salt/sugar to taste

Step-by-step
Heat green-peas sampai cair.
Whisk oat into green-peas mixture.
Add a bit of salt / sugar depending on your baby’s tastebud.
Cook until you get the desired consistency.
Let to cook.
Ready to serve.

milky green-peas

category: babyfood

assalamualaikum.

phew!

it's been quite sometimes since i last post anything here. i've been busy and when i was a bit free, i spent my time modifying and touching up my other blog.

For those who follow my other blog, surely by now you know my resolution to reduce our eating-out. firstly and mainly due to cost-saving measure. it happened when our spending pattern changed dramatically when the kids were started to being sent to nursery. from a fixed RM500.00, the cost skyrocketed (over sikit di sini, huh?) to RM700. the figures keep changing, depending on our workload at the office. the equation: more workload = late going back = more overtime. at times, we have to fork out even a four-figures! mainly to cover kakak's playschool fee. now that the petrol price has increased, i can go on membebel for days.

anyway, from cost-saving measure, it has become a habit. but it takes a lot. not monetarily but effort and time. we used to 'ceremoniuously' savor our meal when we had home-cooked meals (sbb once in a blue moon makan kat rumah :-O ). now the table is turned and we treated eating-out as an occasion.

We do, at times having hard time to decide what to cook. Like last weekend, we were wandering aimlessly at tesco, trying to decide what raw to buy. fish? chicken? beef? last2 we resorted to tripe a.k.a perut lembu. like always, the more adventureous cook is mdh so he prepared juicy yummy kerabu perut (translate - tripe salad in lime sauce??) while i tended the ever running kids.

and voila!

drool yet?

other than that, i'm gonna share a baby recipe - milky green pea

Ingredients:
Frozen green peas
Fresh milk/formula

Step-by-step
- Soak frozen green peas in water until soft.
- Put in a pan, add water and simmer over medium heat for 15-20 minutes.
- Drain. Let to cool.
- Transfer into a blender. Add milk/formula.
- Blend until smooth.
- Transfer to bekas ais and freeze right away.

This, can be added into your baby's porridge.



in the making - reading for blending

By the way, last 2 nights, I prepared the 'gebu'est and sexiest pancake in the history of my pancake making. Even when it turned cold, kegebuannya masih ketara. I used self-raising flour cap MFM instead of my normal routine of 'tepung cap sauh biru'. i was too busy gobbling down to snap gambar. sori... no bahan bukti.

creamy mashed potato

Category: babyfood

WOW… lama jugak tak letak apa-apa resepi yek. I’ve been busy and it’s kinda normal at this time of the month. Having finished initial compilation and analysis, I’m back to blogging. Sungguh ketagihhhh!!!

Nope, it’s not recipe to GOODY-GOODY NASI AYAM (yet). It’s a teaser, kind of.

drrooollll yet?

Okay, anyone fancy CREAMY MASHED POTATO?
Here goes…

Ingredients
- Potato
- Butter
- Milk
- Salt

Step-by-step
- Peel potato and cut into small wedges/cubes
- Put in a pot. Add water enough to submerge.
- Bring to a boil over high heat for 10 minutes.
- Lower down flame, cover pot and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
- Let to cool.
- Once cool, mash potato into desired consistency. DO NOT BLEND or it will all get starchy (imagine eating gam yang kita beli dalam tiub masa kecik2 dulu, well, the time masa I WAS KECIK to be exact – I am now 32 so, count back okies – I may not be KECIK anymore the time YOU WERE KECIK J)
- Transfer into a pot, add milk and butter (and salt if your baby is over 1yr already tp sikit saja tau)
- Bring to a boil over low heat.
- Cook until it thickens and to your desired consistency.
- Let to cool.
- Ready to eat/freeze

macam ni lah rupanya sebelum ditenggekkan atas dapur untuk kali ke-2

taraaa... dah siap masuk bekas.

Back to GOODY GOODY NASI AYAM, it is, again, my husband’s expertise. Selain mengemas and cleaning up later, I am usually entrusted with blending the sambal (after he carefully put all the ingredients in the blender). Other than that, I am usually incharge of keeping my kids away from the kitchen J. I’m not saying this because he’s my husband but his nasi ayam is SUPERB!!

Coming up - SOUPY MASHED POTATO

applesauce with apricot

Category - baby/toddlerfood

From my reading, one of the ways to feed your kids successfully or to develop healthy eating habits is by introducing varieties of food from the very beginning. Do watch out for the do’s and don’ts such as timing and the type of food.

I applied that to Iman. So far alhamdulillah, he has wonderful appetite and can accept varieties of food. So far I found he’s allergic to broccoli (he got bloated with angin) and he doesn’t like chunky corn. He’s okay with the creamy type tho. I try my best to avoid repetition in his menu in one particular week.

For me, varieties means ‘mix-and-match’. You know, today you mix a and b, tomorrow a and c and so forth and so on. There’s a place in my kitchen cabinet that I reserve specially for Iman’s food. At any one time, you may find these..
1. Bran/oat
2. Cous cous
3. Rice cereal
4. Grind rice
5. Spaghetti
6. Macaroni

I am sharing another version of applesauce today – APPLESAUCE WITH APRICOT. This is, again very simple. I did say something about mix-and-match right? So here goes

INGREDIENTS
- Medium green apples. Kupas, buang biji and cut into wedges
(Having told by yati, we may now opt for red ones)
- A handful of dried apricot
- Ground cinnamon
- Water

STEP-BY-STEP
- Soak dried apricot in hot-boiled water in a bowl, for 15-20 minutes
- Put apple-wedges in a pan/pot.
- Add apricot
- Add water
- Add ground cinnamon
- Bring to a boil over high heat. Let it boil for 10 minutes
- Cover pan/pot.
- Reduce heat and let it simmer over low heat for 15-20 minutes.
- Let to cool. Blend into desired consistency
(Can be eaten on its own or add with cereal)

apricot soaking in hot-boiled water

Sunmaid ada jual dried apricot. Gerai2 in shopping complex pun ada jual. You know, yang jual kismis, nougat, all kinds of nuts. I bought a pack for RM10.

This sauce can also serve as pencicah roti. When Iman was small (smaller, since he’s still small anyway!), I used to dilute applesauce by adding boiled-water. Then carik2kan roti and soak overnight in diluted applesauce. By then the roti was soggy and soft enough for him to munch with his gums.

squid fritters

category: food for all

*SMILE*
*SMILE*

Dear blog-friends
// THANKS for kind words, comments that build, supportive views and all. Actually by sharing, I am more motivated. Yes, I feel good having shared a recipe or two and my limited experience in this.
// For those who are inspired and got excited over cooking, I am glad for that.
// You all are welcome to share your own tips/recipes and whatnots so we can all benefit. I am sure others can cook better than I do or have more recipes to drool for.

From my observation (based on the comments), every recipe has been tried except for CHICKEN WINGS. With this avian-flu thing around recently, I understand the reluctance to even come close to chicken at pasar. And for babyfood, majority likes APPLESAUCE. APPLESAUCE was actually the starting point of my journey into this babyfood cooking.

Anyway, like I say, mdh and me have a simple life, meals and cooking included. For example, last Saturday, we had simple meals for breakfast – SQUID FRITTERS, FRIED DRIED_NOODLES and TELUR PUYUH REBUS (kakak’s favourite).

FRIED FRIED-NOODLES – you can buy dried noodles yang macam mee maggi tu, minus the perasa. Just celurkan until a bit soft. Then boleh goreng macam biasa. Fimiliar dengan mi goreng indomee? Mdh commented the one I prepared last weekend, rasanya sebijik cam tu.

I am sharing one more easy-peasy recipe, SQUID FRITTERS. This is based on Kylie Kwong’s recipe.

INGREDIENTS
Sotong – bersihkan, basuh, potong in anyway you like. To reduce letupan masa masak nanti, toskan properly.
Tepung jagung
Lada hitam
Garam kasar

STEP-BY-STEP
- Tumbuk garam kasar dengan lada hitam sampai hancur.
- Campurkan dengan tepung jagung. Gaul rata.
- Gaulkan sotong dengan tepung.
- Kibas-kibaskan sebelum digoreng
- Goreng sehingga keemasan
- Sedap dimakan panas!
(Kalau tengok gambar yang ummi post tu, nampak cam kuning kan. Ummi tambah kunyit skit).

Mdh tak suka kalau sotong potong kecik. Dia suka besar2 tapi letupannya juga besar! Pernah dulu masa tgh goreng tu minyak terpercik, kena kat leher Ummi. Esoknya pegi kerja, masa kat tempat sembahyang, kawan2 senyum simpul. ‘Kau ‘on’ ke semalam?’ Laaa… diorang ingatkan love bite! Ummi kata, ‘a ah, memang on, sotong yang buat love bite tu’.

Oh, someone (I think it was mama-afif) asked abt rosemary. Nak cerita susah skit, ni gambo dia.. i also used this in making mashed-potato. And on the right is ground-cinnamon which i used in APPLESAUCE

cheesy milidi/spaghetti

Category: baby(toddler)food

If you read yesterday’s entry in my other blog, you may think I had tuna-mayo sandwich for breakfast this morning. Nope, we did not. Not for breakfast. We had it last night as dinner. I was hoping we could reserve ½ loaf for breakfast but the whole loaf was eaten last night alone. My inlaws wont be surprise with this. Not at all.

I was thinking to share the recipe today. Mdh hasn’t send me the recipe yet. I, well, urghh, just helped him ferry the sandwiches from kitchen’s counter to dining table, apart from helping myself on those. So I didn’t know how he did it. Oh,.. credits for me for helping him boiled some eggs.

I am left with CHEESY MILIDI.

Usually, it is CHEESY SPAGHETTI. So you can substitute MILIDI with spaghetti.

Ingredients
- MILIDI / spaghetti – celur in boiling water(+ a bit of oil) until cooked. Then cut milidi/spag into ½ or 1inch in length (senang nak makan nanti).
- 4 tomato cubes
- 4 chicken cubes
- a slice of cheese

Step-by-step
- Put tomato and chicken cubes in a pot.
- Add a bit of water. Cover with lid.
- Heat over low heat until pipping hot.
- Add MILIDI/spaghetti
- Cook until you reach desired consistency
- Add cheese
- Let to cool
- Ready to serve

milidi

+ tomato+chicken cubes

= iman's breakfast today

tomato cereal

category: babyfood

Semalam balik agak cepat. Dah janji dengan kakak nak ke kedai hijau (ekonsave) cari dc katun. Balik rumah, dia tengok cd tu, Iman, macam biasa main botol air. Nampak suasana ‘aman’, tak ada sesi bergaduh, mdh naik mandi, ummi ke dapur.

Cadangnya nak buat milidi goreng tapi mdh insisted on soup instead. Kakak, macam abahnya, suka sup. Malam tadi, dia makan sampai bertambah. Iman pulak makan potato bread seketul.

Hari ni Iman dibekalkan dengan TOMATO CEREAL. Senang sangat. Macam tak sampai hati nak share resepi. Tapi bubuh jugaklah yek.

Ingredients
- 6 tomatoes – cut into wedges
- rosemary
- rice cereal

Step-by-step
- Put tomatoes in a pan. Add water.
- Bring to a boil over high heat. Afterwhich, lower down heat and it simmer for about 10 minutes.
- You may opt to peel off the skin OR to keep it
- Blend into desired consistency
- At this point, kalau tak nak makan lagi, bolehlah dibekukan.
- If frozen, take a few cubes (I use 4), cairkan in a pan.
- Once cair, masukkan rosemary a bit
- Let it boil for a while then turn off heat.
- Add rice cereal slowly.
- Whisk to prevent berketul-ketul
- Once cool, ready to serve

Oh, an anonymous remarked. Mungkin the way I write/pen down my thoughts membuatkan orang salah faham. Forgive me for that. Bimbang orang lain pun salah faham, I’d like to stress that frozen food mesti dicairkan, pipping hot. Bila sejuk baru hidangkan. Jangan bagi frozen food straight away.

As for TOMATO CEREAL, takde gambo. Masa tengah masak tu baru teringat kamera tertinggal dalam kereta.

TIPS: to make homemade rice cereal, basuh beras and keringkan. Then kisarkan menjadi konsistensi yang dikehendaki. Bubur nasi lebih cepat dimasak. Tapi mesti ingat, don’t treat this like on-the-shelf rice cereal yang ‘just-add-water’ sbb this one masih belum dimasak so it needs to be cooked first. simpan dalam air-tight container.

creamy corn

category: babyfood

that was my husband penning his thought. he's doing most cooking in our household. over the years, he has perfected the art of wantan dumpling, chicken rice, beef noodle to name a few. i must thank my MIL for raising such a wonderful man, whom i am married to. from the tales, he (mdh) was also included in activities pertaining to cooking and cleaning eventho he's the only son. of course he has the privilege of buying comics and a bmx bicycle as compared to his sisters. so, ladies, if you have a son, please teach them cooking and washing and cleaning as well.

so, anyone other than mamafynn try out any recipes here? i know yati and someone anynomous tried applesauce. mamafynn tried soupy milidi and cous-cous right? i humbly hope everyone likes the taste. like i said, the principal to my recipe is SIMPLICITY.

I'm sharing a very simple babyfood recipe here today

CREAMY CORN
Ingredients
Fresh/frozen corn
Brown sugar
Baby formula

Step-by-step
- in case of fresh corn, kopek/sagat the kernel.
- in case of frozen corn, soak in water for about 20minutes or until soft
- wash and strain.
- put in a pot then boil until cooked
- let to cool down and blend into desired consistency.
*at this point, sedia untuk dibekukan
- take a portion of blended corn (if frozen, i use 4 cubes for a serving) and heat over slow heat.
- add a bit of brown sugar (optional). stir.
- add 1 or 2 scoops of baby formula. stir.
- ready to serve

creamy corn is in the yellow container. those are my kids' bekal.clockwise from top: assortments of biscuits and small rolls, sunmaid raisins creamy corn and apples+pear cuts. Not only I am an obsessed babyfood cook, i am also a big 'worrier' on 'cukup ke makan anak2 aku kat sekolah nih?'

prawn on toast

category: food for all

This is more of finger-food actually. For light eaters, this can serve you as lunch or dinner. We had this as side to accompany our heavy breakfast. Very easy to make. Even your husband can do this. And in my case, mebbe my husband will remark 'so easy, even my wife can do this'. *silalah baca ayat tersirat*

PRAWN-ON-TOAST

This, is very much alike to roti-telur except, as the name implies, it has prawns on it. in addition to that, unlike roti-telur, this one is crispy. despite being deep-fried, it is surprisingly not oily.

Ingredients
- roti keping2, cut into 2. nak cun, potong sekali tepi2 tu so only the white part yang nampak
- egg
- cornflour
- salt
- prawns (shelled, devein, cut lengthwise tapi tak putus and pressed a bit to flatten them)

Step-by-step
- beat egg lightly
- add courflour
- add a bit of salt to taste
- stir lightly
- take one prawn, celup in egg-mix and pressed onto bread. do sudukan a bit of egg-mix onto bread.
- heat oil
- deep fry
- serve hot



Tips: Use stale bread to make sandwiches (hukum SRT nih)

sexy chicken wings

category: food for all

now that mdh doesnt have to go for classes on weekends anymore (hip hip hurray to that), we decided we can try more new recipes. magazines flipped, books revised. we tried 2 recipes (very-very easy peasy, I must say). we did PRAWN ON TOAST and SEXY CHICKEN WINGS. i'm sharing recipe of SEXY WINGS first.

glistened... sexy.. wuhuhuuu
(they look much sexier 'in person')

Ingeredients
6 wings
2-3 garlic - pound finely or simply use garlic-press
ginger - pound finely. you can also put the ginger in.. er... garlic-press as well
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp light soy sauce aka kicap cair
1 tsp kicap pekat (what's its english name ek?)
1 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp oil (it suggests peanut oil but i used olive oil)
a bit of salt

Step-by -step
- mix all ingredients together
- marinade in a covered bowl for at least 3hrs, preferably overnight
- heat oil (deep frying) in a wok (over low heat)
- lower down wings one by one
- when all 'sesi letupan' berakhir, you can then tuang the kuah in the wok
- cover wok for 5-10 minutes (in between, do flip them over)
- remove cover and fry for another 5 minutes
- serve hot with sweet chilli (tak tau buat, beli jek sos thai)

Tips: when frying something with honey, use low heat as honey camarelises fast.

soupy milidi

kategori: food for all

my SIL, che de (one of mdh's 5 elder sisters) prepared milidi on fish soup the other day. memang yummy. Iman pun makan semangkuk. it looked like lidi, hence the name (or so i thought at the time). baru-baru ni che de went back to tgg so ummi mintak tolong dia belikan milidi. boring-boring makan mi kuning and bihun, boleh tukar angin makan milidi pulak kan.

she came back last friday, along with the things i ordered. here how it looks like..

sebenarnya namanya mmg milidi. bukan setakat nama manja. now i know..

budu tak boleh tinggal. tapi dia tak terlibat dalam pembuatan soupy milidi ni

halalan toiyibban

saturday morning, sebungkus dah selamat dibuat milidi sup. simple recipe.

Ingredient: -
- sebungkus milidi (celur dalam air mendidih for about 4-5 minutes. then rinse under cool running water)
- garlic (mince finely)
- ginger (mince finely)
- fishball (hiris or wedge)
- tomato
- sawi
- spring onion
- pepper
- sesame oil
- chicken stock (remember my entry abt chicken stock? see.. not onyl your baby can benefit from it..)
- 1 egg (mix with a bit of water)

Step-by-step
- heat oil (use olive oil for healthier meal) in a pot
- fry garlic and ginger. bagi hangus skit, baru sedap. tapi janganlah sampai hitam yek.
- add fishball
- add chicken stock and let it simmer for 10-15 minutes
- add sawi
- add salt to taste. can also add pepper powder. add a bit of sesame oil. stir
- add egg-water mixture. stir continuously until egg is cooked
- add tomato and tutup api
- just before serving, add milidi
- garnish with spring onion

and voila, milidi soup

tips: 1. to thicken, a conflour-water mix can be added to soup. stir continuously until thicken.

teaser: my next recipe - SEXY CHICKEN WINGS (tunggguuuu!!!!)

chicken stock & yummy cous-cous

category: babyfood

suamiku lambat lagi. to kill time, bolehlah share another recipe - chicken stock. the beauty of this is that you can cook many thing at a time. here goes....

Ingredients: -
- 1/2 chicken - besar munya - cut into 2
- 2-3 carrots - potong besar2
- 1-2 sticks of celery - potong besar2
- ginger - chopped
- garlic - chopped

Step-by-step
- sweat ginger and garlic. maknanya, tumis tapi jgn sampai kuar kaler kecoklatan
- put in chicken. biarkan for abt 5 minutes
- masukkan air. quantity depending on how much stock you want to make
- bring to a boil over high heat. biarkan for abt 15-20 minutes
- bring down the heat and let it simmer for 1-1.5 hrs
- bila dah sejuk, fish out as follows:
- chicken and celery. debone chicken - blend with celery, freeze
- carrot - blend, freeze
- divide stock into small portions.
Note: the cubes can then be mixed with other ingredients.

Using the above, I made Iman a yummy chicken&carrot cous-cous
(maaf, ada bunyi2 perasan disitu)
yummy cous-cous in the making (gambo di bawah)

oh,.. masih ada masa. suamiku tak abess meeting lagi. boleh bagi resepi cous-cous pulak

Ingredients:
- 1 cup cous-cous (this much boleh buat 2 portion)
- 4 chicken cubes
- 4 carrot cubes
- chicken stock

Step-by-step
- soak cous-cous in steaming-boiled water for abt 20 minutes.
- rinse. put aside.
- in the meantime, cairkan chicken stock, chicken cubes and carrot cubes in a pan.
- after 100% cair, masukkan cous-cous
- cook until you get the desired consistency
- if your baby likes cheese, boleh campur jugak

senang je, kan?

iman's all-time-feveret applesauce

category: babyfood

APPLESAUCE
Ingredients
- 8 medium-sized green apples
- 2-3 medium-sized red apples (optional - to 'tone' down rasa masam epal hijau)
- 8-10 ketul dried prunes
- cinnamon powder

Steps
- kupas epal and potong into thin wedges.
- put in pan, add prunes
- add water
- add dashes of cinnamon powder
- bring to a boil over high heat and let it boil for 5-10 minutes
- cover pan. bring down the heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes
- let to cool
- puree into desired consistency

tips: boleh mamam without pureing as well. campur ngan bubur nasi also can.

cooked. ready to puree.

kertas kat bawah tu adalah meal-plan Iman week by week. i did warn you im obsessed right.

some basics abt babyfood - my experience

nih kalau iman nampak nih, sure dia kejar sambil jerit NAAKKKK!!! NAKKK!!!

mamafynn-this one goes to you

i have to admit. im quite obsessed with preparing, cooking and feeding my toddling-boy, Iman. im a working mom. going out for work as early as 0650hrs and usually at atfal's (my kids' nursery) doorstep at around 1900hrs. no matter how little time i think i have, i feel obliged to have Iman eat homemade meal tho atfal do have their own. mainly due to the guilt of not breastfeeding him longer than i had planned to.

tips:
- batch cook. it may be sometime before you get your own 'system'. rest assured, once you got it, it's gonna be a breeze.
- if you intend to be obsessed as well, get a good stainless steel pan/pot with cover. and wooden ladle. and bekas ice with cover. and freezer bag. and small containers. and most importantly - a blender or food processor.
- get your husband to also master 'system' or at least teach him how to heat up the frozen food. penting maaa.. nanti kot2 tak sihat ke, balik lewat ke, at least he knows what to do.

steps-by-steps:-
- cook
- puree
- freeze (up to 6 weeks, so your need to label as well)

bila nak makan
- put in pan, add a bit of boiled water. usually per serving i use 4 cubes.
- put on heat until cair and pipping hot
- can be eaten on its own or add with oats/cous2/porridge

since masa mencemburui, i can only share iman's all-time-favourite applesauce in my next posting. tunggguuuuuuu....

pancakes with strawberry sauce & honey

PANCAKE WITH STRAWBERRY SAUCE & HONEY
(kek kuali leper dgn sos stroberi & madu.. heh heh)

PANCAKE
Bahan A

1. 1 cup flour (all-purpose, tapi tepung gandum cap sauh can also lah)
2. 1 tspoon baking powder
3. 1 tbspoon sugar
4. 1/4 tspoon salt

Bahan B

1. 1 cup milk (opt for low-fat incase you're watching your waistline)
2. 1 egg
   
3. drops of vanilla essence

- mix A
- mix B and whisk
- whisk B into A
- heat a non-stick pan (low heat)
- drop a ladleful of mixed-A-&-B
- cook until bubbles form on top and brown at the bottom
- flip over and cook till both sides are brown

STRAWBERRY SAUCE

1. a handful of fresh strawberries. cut into wedges or cubes. separate by 1:1
   
2. 1 cup of sugar
3. 2-3 tbspoon milk
   
4. a good dash of cinnamon powder
5. corn-flour (mixed with a bit of water)

- add 1/2 cup water to sugar.
- add 1/2 of the strawberries
- cook until sugar melt and strawberries tender
- add cinnamon and milk
- add corn-flour to thicken into desired consistency
- turn-off heat. add another 1/2 strawberries

tips: uneaten pancakes can be frozen. simple place in freezer-bag. squeeze out the air and freeze it. to heat back, steam it for abt 10-15 minutes depending on the size.

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