In the past three weeks I have baked, stewed, steamed and boiled my way through a huge amount of root vegetables...all for them to go into the blender and be turned into puree for my 6 month old son (who used to be referred to as "The Bug"). Whilst the food processor/hand blender are very good at their jobs and my son loves his food, it does all start looking the same.
For example, I cooked, pureed and froze (using a fabulous food cube tray) carrots, then butternut squash and then sweet potatoes and below is a sample of each...
Can you tell at a glance which cube is which vegetable? (Answers at the bottom of the post)
Had it not been for my minor OCD and my joy at being able to get my Sharpie out of the pencil case to lable up freezer bags for each veggie...I think I would have been quite lost!
Thankfully The Bug has moved on from just having orange vegetables and we are now mixing in chicken, white fish, pasta and rice (all blitzed until smooth though). If anything, making up cubes of vegies and then mixing them together has giving me some brilliant soup ideas this winter.
So that's it for today...nothing hugely spectacular but an insight into my kitchen none-the-less.
PS - the answers were a = sweet potato, b = butternut squash, and c = carrot