Sweet Sunshine Curry

For le petite sir this evening, a yummy mild curry.

Ingredients
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 onion, diced
1 organic carrot, cubed
1 organic apple, peeled and cubed
1 organic potato, cubed
1/2 cup peas & corn (frozen organic if you can get them)
1 tsp each of cumin, turmeric and garam masala
1/4 cup low fat milk
1 cup filtered water
Greek yoghurt to serve

Fry off the onion in the butter over moderate heat until soft and translucent. Add the other veggies and stir until coated in the butter. Add the spices, stir again to evenly distribute, then the water. Leave to simmer for ten minutes- add a little more water if required. Add the milk and stir. Make sure it doesn't catch the bottom. I added a half cup of peas and corn at the last minute and stirred off the heat until thawed and warmed.

Serve with Greek yoghurt. Add a piece of rye toast or brown rice if you would like.

Pouch love.

I just bought these reusable pouches yesterday and I am so in love. I have seen them online and been meaning to order a pack, so imagine my glee when I walked into a healthy living store whilst on holiday with mum and there they were, winking back at me. This one is filled with mum's apple stew for my dear little ladybug to have at brekkie. They're completely reusable. At 2.5 my son still likes to eat from squeezy pouches sometimes, particularly if he isn't well or we are having a busy day, so I am sure these babies will get a workout!

Baby Bites- Bolognese

Cinnamon and Vanilla Rice Biscuits

I wanted to make a healthy snack option for the kids that emulates rice biscuits. These were super quick, and easy...and there's three ingredients. The thing I particularly love about making my own kiddy snacks is that I have total control of the ingredients, and I know the provenance of everything I include. So these were a cup of wholegrain organic puffed brown rice, a teaspoon of organic cinnamon and vanilla seeds just-scraped from the tail of a pod (maybe two centimetres to get about 1/4 teaspoon of seeds). I then added a couple of tablespoons of filtered water, squeezed with my hands to form toddler-size disks and baked for twenty minutes at around 200'c. Actually, I chose this temp because I'm roasting a chook for our lunch, but I would like to try doing these at a lower temp for longer. But for now- a huge success and a sweet little biscuit that is healthy too!

Apricot Delight

My husband is an apricot fiend and has been forever. As a small boy he called them Cotticots and played tirelessly at his grandma's feet begging for Cotticot after Cotticot after Cotticot. He has passed this gene onto our son, except he calls them "sollies", as in "special lollies".

You know those little cubes called Apricot Delights? They have like a smidgen of dried apricots and a truckload of sugars, but they are so delicious. I started off trying to replicate that flavour, but they morphed into something else altogether. A different flavour but equally delicious and so much better for you.

Ingredients
120g macadamia nuts
500g dried Turkish apricots (organic if you can get them)
125g dessicated coconut plus extra for dusting
3 tablespoons filtered water

Combine nuts, apricots, water and dessicated coconut in a food processor until it's completely paste like. Lay baking paper into a shallow baking tray. Sprinkle some reserved coconut then scoop in the paste. Flatten with your fingers until it is level. Sprinkle the top with extra coconut and refrigerate at least two hours to set. Cut into bite size cubes. Yummo!

Red chicken curry with wild rice- baby bites

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Coconut Jelly with banana floats and vanilla yoghurt

Seriously, the best kid treat ever. Tip a tin of organic low fat coconut milk into a small saucepan, add a tablespoon of powdered gelatine, and simmer for five minutes, stirring all the while, until gelatine is dissolved. Pour into a small container and leave to set... Add any fruits you would like (we used bananas). They will set within two hours, and I served mine topped with organic vanilla yoghurt. Seriously delicious, easy and I promise, once you make friends with gelatine powder you will never buy supermarket jelly mixed again. Use any organic fruit or veggie juice or smoothie and boom! You have a delicious dessert that kids just love...