Knitting and Ravelry
i’ve just discovered Ravelry – and it’s so addictive! I could spend hours on there looking at everyone’s different projects. you can also link it to your blog, so in theory, this post should end up there.
I’ve been knitting a hooded sweater for Evie, and I’ve just finished the knitting today, now to try to make it up before she grows out of it. I hate making up. But I’m going to try to force myself to do this before I can start anything new. And sadly no photos at the moment because the camera is full. Hopefully DH will sort it out and then I can work on filling it up with photos of knitting and Evie again.
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My freezer is beginning to look a little bare. I’ve been trying to cook more for us, and also trying to do more stuff out and about with the Veggie Baby, so that leaves a lot less time for making baby meals. I did manage to make some blueberry and nectarine puree (well, it was quite watery so more a sauce really) yesterday, and that was absolutely delicious.
1 punnet blueberries (approx 150g)
2 nectarines (or peaches would work well), peeled, stoned and chopped
2 tblsp waterPut the fruit and water in a pan and stew over a low heat for about 15 minutes or until the nectarines are soft. Puree according to your baby’s needs.
Evie loves this mixed with a little Greek yogurt (make sure it’s the full fat variety), or even with Mascarpone. it would probably also be really nice served over ice cream for older children or adults. And it freezes well. I did try to give it to her mashed rather than pureed, but that just didn’t work because the nectarines went a bit stringy and the skins on the blueberries caused hassle as well. Oh, just a word of warning though – this can get a bit messy, but great photo opportunities.
More on freezers
OK, so I know it’s not particularly interesting or exciting, but bizarrely, my webstats inform me that several people visited her after searching Google for ‘freezer garage’. So, I don’t want to disappoint anyone, so here’s an update on my freezer in the garage situation. 
As mentioned in the original ‘freezer in the garage’ post, apparently you aren’t supposed to keep fridges/freezers or similar in garages or other outbuildings because strangely they don’t work well in the cold. It’s now February and although we have had a particularly mild winter, we have had a few chilly days, and the new chest freezer seems to be absolutely fine. However, the upright fridge-freezer does seem to have started making a new noise. Mind you, that’s also always been in the garage (well, the out-house) and it’s always been fine before. It’s still working OK though, so I’ve decided to just stick my fingers in my ears and go ‘la-la-la-la-la-’ and pretend it’s not happening until it actually breaks down and stops working.
And the chest freezer has been really, really useful and I’m very glad we bought it. We tend to keep all of Evie’s stuff in the little freezer because it’s more accessible, and all of our stuff is in the chest freezer because we don’t need to get at it as often. I haven’t exactly filled it up with homemade cakes and stews, as I intended, but you can’t have everything.
Filed under Veggie-baby | Comment (0)Sleep and teeth
After we got back from holiday, Evie took about a week to get back into a decent sleeping pattern. Then, about 3 days later, she started teething again!!
Her first two bottom teeth arrived relatively hassle free, but these top two must have been really uncomfortable for her. She’s had such a runny nose that she hasn’t been able to breathe properly when she’s feeding, so that makes her cross and frustrated. Then I think because her mouth is sore, she doesn’t want to eat, so she wakes up in the night and is hungry, but can’t feed because she can’t breathe – and so on! They’ve taken their time coming through, but they’re both through the gums now, and she’s not quite as snotty as she has been and she’s been feeding and eating a little better.
But it all seems to be two steps forward, and one step back – I get her eating lumpy food, then she won’t eat anything because of the teeth, and so we’re back to square one again! I made vegetable goulash the other day for her, and that went down surprisingly well considering it was her first time eating mushrooms or kidney beans. She’s much more keen on feeding herself though – unfortunately she’s not particularly good at it. So I spend most of lunchtime fishing out larger chunks of beans and veg that she can pick up and eat herself. Oatcakes are also popular, and she loves rusks – but they’re a bit of a last resort when she won’t eat anything else because they’re very sweet, and I’m sure that can’t be good.
Hopefully now we’re over the worst of the teething for the moment, so we can enjoy a good nights sleep and some happier mealtimes. On a slightly unrelated note, I’ve rejoined Slimming World in the hope that Evie can have a slimmer mummy!
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Further to my post about new year resolutions, I bit the bullet and joined Slimming World. I’m not telling you all what I weigh, but suffice to say, it’s far too much! My meetings and weigh-ins will be on a tuesday, and I think I’ll try to get a ticker sorted for my blog so that I can update things that way.
So far, I’m doing OK. I’ve been trying to cook more and I made a Pearl Barley stew yesterday, which was quite nice, but a bit too runny, so we also had it for lunch as a soup. I think I’m going to do mushroom risotto for tea tonight. One good thing is that because I’m still breast-feeding, I get extra ‘A’ choices – so more milk and cheese, which is always good. Newt has given up cheese for Lent though, so that makes family cooking a little more tricky. Not that I can do proper family cooking anyway, because now we want low fat stuff, and Eve still needs the full fat things.
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