Have you ever tasted Parisian carrots? These very sweet, cute little carrot balls burst with color, taste and nutrients! According to the Seed Savers Exchange, the Parisian market carrot (Daucus carota), is a nineteenth-century French heirloom. It grows early in the season and can be a red-orange color. These sweet little carrots are about 1-2″ [...]
Of all the advice given about feeding babies and introducing them to the amazing world of solid, “real” food, the advice that you must feed them bland (boring!) foods is really irksome. Now granted, you don’t want to jump right in and offer your little one a hot curry or a spicy jalapeno pasta dish, [...]
Fall is a great time of year for introducing solid foods and for introducing new spices and herbs to your little one! If your baby is just starting out on solid foods, Pumpkin, Apple, Butternut and other Winter Squash and Pears are just a few of the super delightful and tasty foods that come out [...]
When you think of ginger, you might immediately think of gingerbread cookies or cakes. Ginger however has a myriad of other culinary uses and ginger nicely spices up many dishes that you can share with your baby. Ginger is thought to help ease a variety of digestive upsets and conditions such as nausea, diarrhea and [...]
Cardamom – what a lovely spice and using a little goes a long way! Cardamom has such a wide variety of uses that you should keep some on hand, like you would keep ground pepper on hand. A bit sweet yet a bit savory, this spice smells wonderful and is nice in baked goods, with [...]
Yes, I know it’s Monday but yesterday I was spending a wonderful Mother’s day doing sweet family nothings On with the post already….. Feathery and fragrant, dill is a great herb to add to baby’s foods. Dill is said to help calm hiccups, colic and digestive upsets. It’s an herb that is said to [...]
This post marks the beginning in a series I’m calling “Spicy Sunday”. When it comes to baby food, we often think that babies should eat only bland [boring] and plain [boring] foods. Take rice cereal for example, it’s bland and boring. Now add a spice and perhaps a fruit puree and viola, you have a rather [...]
One of our favorite things to reiterate is that baby’s food does NOT have to be boring or bland. On our Spice Up Your Baby Food page we list a few wonderful herbs and spices, along with a few ideas for foods to pair them with, to introduce your baby to. We have had a [...]
When you make homemade baby food, a great benefit is that you are able to incorporate herbs and spices into baby’s meals. Using herbs and spices that are common in the family’s meals helps get your baby ready to transition to “table foods” and eating foods the family eats during mealtime. Jolianne had asked if [...]
As many worry that introducing sweet potatoes before green beans will make baby grow-up with a monsterous sweet tooth, we posted a snippet from a study that shows the order of solid foods that baby is introduced to really doesn’t matter (keeping in mind potential allergens and age appropriateness that is). Today we were looking [...]
Janie wrote to us to as about adding a wee bit of salt to the baby food recipes she was making. We let her kow that adding salt to baby food recipes is not a good idea! Why is adding Salt to your homemade baby food recipes not recommended? There are a few reasons for [...]
This post applies ONLY to sugar in teething biscuits, bread sticks, First Birthday Cakes and other non-meal type foods! Sugar (and salt) should never be used in your baby’s every day meal foods. There is no need to sweeten up baby’s applesauce for example! Arianna wrote to us tonight to ask about using Stevia [...]
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