There's no accounting for babies' tastebuds. After a tummy bug our baby refused everything except yoghurt and fruit for about a month. Then (especially when he saw a slightly older baby eating new things) he got interested in more variety again. But it's no good making him 'baby-friendly' things like simple tomato sauce with teeny tiny pasta or peanut-butter sandwiches - which apparently are the favourite food of half the babies I know - no, he has higher aspirations, like -
Strawberries - I first gave him a tiny mashed up bit with some cream from an Eton Mess I was eating. Now he wolfs them down, biting them savagely and managing to get through eight large ones in one day. And the other favourite is -
Smoked salmon. No good giving him simple plain salmon, nicely cooked up a la baby cooking expert Annabel Karmel, no, he wants smoked salmon, which he'll eat and eat and eat. I'm sure this makes me a Bad Mother - the salt! the uncooked fish! but he loves it so, you know....
Meanwhile the baby rice and baby porridge and baby pasta are sitting untouched on the shelf. Given these fancy new tastebuds he's developing I've been thinking what else I could offer him. Champagne in his bottle? Pimms in his drinking cup? Canapes topped with caviar after a hard day at the childminder's? All I can surmise is he likes quite strong tastes and interesting textures. So I'm off to look round the supermarket and in my cookery books for ideas. Squid pieces? Chorizo? Tapas selection? Crispy duck in Chinese pancakes with plum sauce and spring onions? Who knows.
Strawberries - I first gave him a tiny mashed up bit with some cream from an Eton Mess I was eating. Now he wolfs them down, biting them savagely and managing to get through eight large ones in one day. And the other favourite is -
Smoked salmon. No good giving him simple plain salmon, nicely cooked up a la baby cooking expert Annabel Karmel, no, he wants smoked salmon, which he'll eat and eat and eat. I'm sure this makes me a Bad Mother - the salt! the uncooked fish! but he loves it so, you know....
Meanwhile the baby rice and baby porridge and baby pasta are sitting untouched on the shelf. Given these fancy new tastebuds he's developing I've been thinking what else I could offer him. Champagne in his bottle? Pimms in his drinking cup? Canapes topped with caviar after a hard day at the childminder's? All I can surmise is he likes quite strong tastes and interesting textures. So I'm off to look round the supermarket and in my cookery books for ideas. Squid pieces? Chorizo? Tapas selection? Crispy duck in Chinese pancakes with plum sauce and spring onions? Who knows.
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