Ever since having Olivia I have had the unexplicable urge to become Ms. Suzie Housemaker! I would have never thought in a million years that I would actually want to take up sewing, crocheting, or much less making baby food. Baby food...my new endeavor! Although it's an extremely messy and time consuming process, I find it very rewarding to watch my little one enjoying my creations.
To make the baby food I use a wonderful baby food cookbook; which, up to this point has been quite easy to follow. Before you say it...no, it was not a waste of money because the baby food recipes are for infants and toddlers.
As of last week I have been introducing a new group of foods, one of which is Peaches! This particular morning had already been a stressful one. I had been up with Olivia all night on her teething trip and was purely exhausted. Of course, as with anything else that could happen in my life, she was completely out of baby food for breakfast. So, I read the instructions for the peaches and it states to just put the peaches in boiling water for just a couple of seconds...and Voila! The skin should just slide right off the peach. In my infinite culinary skills, (which by the way, I don't have any) I didn't know this applied only to ripe peaches. Has anyone out there tried to peel a peach with a vegetable peeler? Well, if you haven't, don't try this at home kids...it's a slippery and dangerous mess. This sounds ridiculous, but I was bound and determined to get this done. Olivia will have her peaches. Once I finally get the skin off the peaches, then the fun really got started, pitting the peach. Since the peaches weren't ripe I needed the strength of the Incredible Hulk to get it out. Once that exhausting experience was over it was time to move onto pureeing the peaches in the food processor. Easy enough, right? Not for me! All of a sudden the peach puree begins shooting out of the salad shooter end of the food processor. I shut off the food processor and begin scrambling to find something to prevent it from shooting out of the side, which I end up figuring out there are extra parts designed specifically to seal off the salad shooter. After over an hour of this endless torture, I finally finished!
In the end, Olivia got her peaches and I have a messy kitchen to clean. However, it's all worth it! Hmm, what food shall we try next?
"...Olivia, do you want to try carrots?"
