Posts Tagged ‘Cooking’

This week I made teething biscuits/cookies for my 9 month old baby boy. I had been wanting to for awhile and finally did since the baby cereal had been stacking up in the pantry. Seriously, he does not like that stuff but  he’ll eat it when it’s made into a biscuit! I plan on trying different variations since we aren’t afraid of flavor and he pretty much eats everything that we eat. Last night he got his first taste of steak and you can guess that he was eager for more of that. Now I know why people says boys will eat you out of house and home.

I got the recipe for the biscuits I made from the Wholesome Baby Food website. There are a lot of recipes to choose from but today since I had a lot to do, decided to use a really simple one. Not that most of them aren’t simple I just didn’t have the time to measure out the spices and other things. Three ingredients that were on my counter top and easy to throw together, yes please! I went with this one:

Eggless Baby Cereal Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup flour ( I used all purpose)
1 cup baby cereal ( I used oatmeal baby cereal)
1 cup juice  ( I used apple)

Directions:

Mix ingredients well. Roll out and cut into shapes. Bake for 20-30 min @ 350 deg. F.

Freezes Well *Dough will be very sticky and seem “wrong” and may be hard to work with. This is as it should be so do not panic. You may wish to add more flour and/or cereal to achieve a more doughy consistency.*

I had fun making these and I had such adorable cookie cutters that hadn’t seen any love for awhile. Not that I don’t bake cookies often but I don’t usually make roll out cookies till around the cooler seasons. The summer time usually puts a damper on my baking due to not wanting to heat up the house so much. I look forward to making more of these. They are so easy to do and making them yourself is a lot more affordable than purchasing boxes of the pre-made ones.

This weekend I happened to get a rather large amount of green beans at my local farmers market. and since we won’t be eating them all at one sitting, I needed to freeze these and I’m going to share how it’s done! Blanching is one of those skills my mom taught me how to do  growing up. It brings back memories of shelling purple hulls as well as many other types of beans sprawled out on the kitchen floor with my mom and sisters that we got from friends and families gardens as well as our own.

What you need:

Green beans
Salt
Sauce pan
Water
Ice

Freezer bags

How it’s Done…

1. Prepare your green beans by cutting or snapping each of the ends off as well as breaking them to size you’d like them to be.

2.  Start a pot of boiling water and season with salt. How much salt you add kinda depends on how big a batch you plan on freezing. I just eye it and do what feels right.

3.  Prepare a bowl of ice water for the after boiling process. Make sure you have trays of ice in freezer for this process ( I had to wait a little longer to prepare my batch because I almost never have ice in my freezer!)

4. Add your cut and snapped beans to boiling water and boil for 3 minutes time. I’d stir the beans around to make sure they were evenly spread in the process.

5.  After 3 minutes, take the beans out of the boiling water, and immediately submerge them into the prepared bowl ice water.  Keep them there for three minutes time!

6.  Remove the beans from the ice water, and dry them.  You can now stick them in freezer bags and put them in the freezer ready for use at a future date.

7. When ready to eat just pull them out of the freezer and cook in a preferred method. I tend to like to steam my vegetables because it tends not to overcook and remove the nutrients that are good for you.