Slopsville – The Rice Pudding.
So I finally got around to making Helen’s rice pudding. Kind of. I thought there was only one way to make rice pudding. So I didn’t think I needed to bother making the arduous trek from the kitchen to the computer (about ten feet) to look up Helen’s recipe. How different could it be from the one on the side of the rice box? That was my first mistake. My second mistake was to not read the “recipe”...
Slopsville – Our baby Weaning Diary. Week 11.
Each week, I get a newsletter about what to expect at each stage of my baby’s development. A couple of weeks ago, it included the following: “Any day now, if she hasn’t already, your baby may try feeding herself.” Any day now? Joe’s been doing it for months! Months! Trying, I mean. He’s only actually succeeded in the last couple of weeks, but he’s been failing at it for ages. I think he sees...
Slopsville – Our Baby Weaning Diary – Week Ten
A couple of weeks ago, I was send a baby food kit for review. It included a hand blender. Now we bought a hand blender when we had Harry and it was rubbish. It didn’t seem to blend the food, rather it just rearranged it. But this one – wow. From ‘proper’ grown-up food to baby slop in seconds. (That’s not the review by the way, I’ll be writing a proper review on the main site.) The first time I used...
Slopsville – Our baby weaning diary. Week Nine. ish.
Have you seen the episode of Friends in which Joey goes out on a date and gets upset with the woman because she takes chips off his plate? He explains his horror by repeating, “Joey doesn’t share food!” Well, my Joe (I’m not calling him ‘Joey’ even for the purposes of this story, sorry) doesn’t share food either. Like Joey Tribbiani, Joe will happily, enthusiastically, insistently share other...
Slopsville – our baby weaning diary. Week Eight.
It probably won’t come as a shock to you that Joe is a messy eater. You’ve seen his picture. And babies aren’t exactly known for their table manners anyway, are they? But Joe takes messy eating to the next level. He dials messy eating up to 11. He laughs in the face of messy eating and then hurls it down the front of my top. Harry was a messy eater too, of course. I’ve got the traditional pictures of his face...
Slopsville – our baby weaning diary. Week Seven.
We got in from a long day visiting family (including my dad in hospital). Joe had barely slept all day (and Joe usually sleeps for at least – at LEAST – four hours a day) so I wanted to get him to bed fairly swiftly, but he also needed to eat something. The previous day, he’d had some mixed berries that I’d mixed with some of his cereal. And he’d loved it. So we made it for him again and he wolfed it...