Cooking Marathon

7 Months

I have had a few rounds now of making just a couple foods at a time so this time I decided I would make a bunch! Three hours worth! I made mangos, apples, pears, zucchini/yellow squash, carrots/parsnips, and chicken!!

Mangos: (1st time) Random purchase. They were really cheap...and huge! I let them get pretty ripe, so there was no need to cook them. Just sliced them up and pureed them in the magic bullet and they're ready to go. Two huge mangos = 12 oz. No added water as these pureed to be pretty thin, I'll probably add a little cereal to thicken up when I give them to Dylan. Beware though, as I read the tropical fruits tend to be more allergenic...just a rash so I'm not too worried, but probably won't give any new foods for the first couple days of mangos.

Apples: (1st time) Thanks to Jenny for picking some apples for us! Peel, slice or cube, and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes. Added a little cinnamon and pureed in blender with some water. I later decided to mix these with the pears that I made almost exactly the same way. I just decided to do a little combo for a different taste, and I find the pears to be very thin so the apples actually thickened them up a little bit. 8 small/medium apples + 4 pears = 20 oz.

Zucchini and Yellow Squash: (1st time) The website I've been using says this is a great first food. I love these vegetables, but I find them to be very watery when overcooked, so I figured they would puree very thin. Turns out that wasn't the case. They say the skins can be hard to digest at first, but at 7-8 months you should be able to leave them on. I left the skins on, sliced them up and actually sauteed them with a tiny bit of oil and oregano. Once they were pretty well cooked, I pureed them in the magic bullet. I actually had to add a little water! 1 zucchini and 1 yellow squash = 10 oz.

Carrots/Parsnips: (1st time with combo) So I actually made sweet potato and parsnip combo last time, and he LOVED it. I think it was his favorite. This time I decided to do this combo because I could just make them both together. Just peeled both of them, cut them up and boiled them until they were tender...maybe 20 minutes, didn't keep track. Pureed them in the blender with just about all of the water they were boiled in. 5 carrots and 3 large parsnips = 28 oz. And seriously, they are pretty delicious...tastes like fall on a spoon!

Chicken: (1st time) You ready for this...Dave was actually the one to do it...we made a whole chicken. I know, crazy, but they say the best is the dark meat, so I thought...why not? There have got to be some advantages to having a chef in the house ;) So I'm not sure if Dylan will like this because it really is a different texture, but hopefully he will! I mixed the dark meat with some carrot puree and basil and mixed the light meat with some apples with the cinnamon. This took quite a bit of water to get it to the right texture, but actually didn't taste too bad. We'll see about this one. Hard to say how much this one yielded, but I would guess 24 oz of just pureed chicken...yum!

I'll keep you posted on how he liked all of it! :)