Welcome to My Baby Hates This, where I report on, among other things, recipes I try out on my daughter, Anna. Anna's pretty much despised anything I've tried to make her except boob milk for all her 19 months. But I keep trying. After all, the wisdom of many sources agree that the best approach is to offer, and keep offering, a variety of healthy food. It's my job. It's Anna's job to choose to eat it, or not.
Today's experiment was a recipe given to me by my friend Marci, who said it got her daughter Louisa to eat tomatoes. For other brave baby-feeding souls out there, I quote the recipe:
1/2 cup pasta (we use the little stars, stellini)
1/2 diced small leek
1 small red pepper
1 small zucchini
5 tbsp canned diced tomatoes
1/2 tsp oregano
2 Tbsp grated cheddar cheese
Sauté the leek and red pepper in a bit of olive oil until almost soft. Add the zucchini, tomatoes and oregano. Cook until all vegetables are soft. Puree and mix with pasta. Add the cheese.
Anna gives it a 1/10. This means she ate a little of it, because it happened to get spread on the bread I fed her as a filler, since she didn't eat any of it out of the bowl.
