Cookin' up a mush storm

 Time to introduce the little guy to some different flavours. Overcoming my strong dislike of peppers - yes, I know that's freaky but there you are - I decided to make a lovely red pepper mush. Two reasons for this. Firstly, according to the evidence (chat on the tof Facebook group and some throwaway comment from my consultant) tof kids like strong flavours.

Secondly a mother at the under ones group had suggested ages ago that I gave him sticks of red pepper to suck "they like the taste and can't bite it," she said. "So he won't choke." Of course the first thing he did was bite it and nearly choke, but he loved the flavour so much he cried when I took the stick away.

So I lovingly grilled a red pepper and carefully scraped off the skin. Then I tried to run the remaining bits of flesh through the mouli-legumes without much success. I scraped what was left out and then tried to whizz it with the hand blender. Unfortunately there wasn't enough for the blender to get a proper purchase, so I had to squish it through a sieve to get it properly smooth.

At the end of the process I had this much washing up:

And this much red pepper mush.

Guess what - I'm still not that fond of red peppers.

Cooking with Annabel

So, having given up on baby led weaning I took myself down to the library and brought home these Annabel Karmel books. Spent the afternoon cooking up a storm. The little dude is making things harder by deciding that the sound of the blender is torture to him, so I can only mush things down while he's safely asleep upstairs. But fingers crossed there'll be some flavours he likes among this lot...