Peas Please

Never in a million years did I think I would be so excited about baby food, all thanks to the Beaba! This product from Williams Sonoma was given to us as a gift from Cindy (Granna to Bentley) and is amazing! It is a steamer and food processor in one, designed especially for make-your-own baby food. It feels like I am 10 years old again, "pretend cooking" with my Easy Bake Oven (do you girls remember those? I was obsessed)!

The Cooking For Baby cookbook (also Williams Sonoma) is perfect and has simple recipes for each stage. The first suggested recipe to move baby beyond cereal is one ingredient: peas! Now this is my kind of cooking! All you have to do is put some water in the machine, add the vegetables or fruit in the steam basket, put the lid on and wait 7-10 minutes for it to be done! Then you remove the basket and it blends your cooking liquid and vegetables in the same container! Seriously as easy as 1, 2, 3. For the moms or soon-to-be moms out there, I definitely recommend asking for this!

And voila! Pureed peas in no time. The containers can be frozen so when we're ready for more peas we can just pop out a 1/4 cup serving and thaw! Amazing! Here is my finished product. Oh, poor babies, they have to eat the weirdest looking things!

Little did I know the best part would be watching Bentley eat it!


And here is the play by play:

"Yay I get to eat something..."
"Wait a minute, this tastes a little different than my normal cereal and breastmilk..."

"I'm not sure I want to swallow this..."

"Okay, I can do this, deep breath and it will be over!"

"Do you people seriously expect me to eat another bite of this stuff?"

Congratulations Bentley! You've conquered your first vegetable!