Cooking for Kam: Spinach & Swiss Grilled Cheese
December 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM | Posted in Baby Food | Leave a commentTags: food, Grilled cheese, spinach, Swiss, toddler
My boy loves cheese and bread as much as every other toddler. Sometimes I feel guilty giving him straight old fashioned grilled cheese. I serve it with fruit and veggies but want his main dish to have extra nutrients too.
Today we opted for Swiss and spinach grilled cheese. I cooked it the same way you know and love and with plenty of butter. I’m not sure if this counts for “sneaking veggies” since he loves spinach and will eat it as a simple side dish but I found it wort sharing.
Cooking for Kam: Quinoa Burgers
April 23, 2012 at 3:16 AM | Posted in Baby Food | 4 CommentsTags: Baby, Baby food, food, homemade, quinoa, toddler food
Quinoa Burgers
I’m a working mom so all of my cooking for the boy is typically done on weekends. I didn’t do a very good job of planning out meals for the week this week and tonight was at a bit of a loss for what to feed Kamran at daycare tomorrow. I have a few meals still frozen from previous weeks and technically could have given him turkey meatballs a few extra times. I don’t like to be as low on food options for Kamran as I currently am so I whipped something up. Tonight’s recipe is brought to you by my “oh no, what do we have in the fridge” moment.
Quinoa burgers. Quinoa is one food I can’t get my husband to eat but Kamran and I both really like it. I love that it is such a versatile food and is packed full of nutrients. You can really mix it with anything. So, what did I have in the fridge? Quinoa, carrots, asparagus, egg and bread crumbs.
Ingredients:
2 cups cooked quinoa
1 cup shredded carrot
1 cup shredded asparagus
2 medium eggs (I buy medium because Kamran never eats all of a large egg)
1 cup bread crumbs
1/2 cup wheat germ (optional)
small diced onion (optional)
pinch turmeric
1 tbsp olive oil
Cook quinoa per instructions on the box. Basically, just like you would rice. Shred all veggies (carrot, asparagus, onion (optional)) then saute in olive oil with a pinch of turmeric.
Add quinoa, cooked veggies, bread crumbs, wheat germ (optional), 2 eggs to large bowl and mix well. Flatten quinoa into small patties by first rolling into a ball then flattening as you would hamburger patties. To cook you can either fry in a pan or bake on 350 for 20 minutes. I had Kamran sample these before he went to bed and he LOVED them.
As I mentioned, one great thing about quinoa is that you can cook it so many ways. It also tastes great with several different ingredients making it really easy to just throw something together using the stuff you have on hand in the fridge. Try these alternates:
Sweet – Substitute veggies (carrot, asparagus, onion) for shredded apple and raisin. Lose the turmeric. You could add cinnamon.
Savory – Substitute veggies for butternut squash. You could keep the carrot if you wanted. Lose the turmeric and use cinnamon instead.
Zucchini is also great with these instead of asparagus.
Cooking for Kam: Chicken Broccoli Quesadillas
April 20, 2012 at 10:04 PM | Posted in Baby Food | 2 CommentsTags: Baby, cooking, food, recipes, toddler
Chicken Broccoli Quesadilla
Kamran has established that he is going to exercise his option of being a picky toddler. He is a pretty inconsistent eater but has made one thing clear. He does not like chicken unless it is mixed with something. He will eat my homemade chicken nuggets, no problem but plain cubes of chicken are for throwing on the floor. That left me with the question of what to do with all of the left over cubed chicken I froze but know Kamran won’t eat. He seemed to like my solution. Quesadillas.
Here is what you need. I only made 1 serving.
1 tortilla
1.5 oz cooked chicken (shredded, cubed, however you prefer)
1.5 oz broccoli–I used frozen organic broccoli and just diced from frozen.
Shredded cheese, as much or little as you like
Heat your tortilla on a pan, flipping until it begins to puff a bit. Add broccoli, chicken and cheese on top to one 1/2 of the open tortilla. Fold the tortilla in half, allow cheese to melt and flip to cook the other side. Cut into finger sized strips and serve.
Kamran has decided that he is now a big boy and wants whole pieces to bite off. You could also cut these down to bite sized pieces if your child prefers.
Day 41: About Those Nurses Again…
February 2, 2011 at 6:20 PM | Posted in Baby Romaezi | 4 CommentsTags: food, High Risk Pregnancy, hospital, non stress test, nurses, photography, pprom, pre-term labor, pregnancy, PROM, ultrasound
Yesterday as I was eating my way out of this hospital room I got a knock on my door. I was totally noshing on tortillas and cheese after nothing healthy would fix my insatiable hunger. The person who opened the door looked so baffled, was also pregnant and looked just plain lost. So with a smile I asked her if she was looking for my room number. She said yes, looked around my room and realized once she saw the Christmas tree we still have up that she had the right person. As soon as she opened her mouth and started talking I realized that the woman at my door was a nurse of mine from Labor and Delivery! I was so surprised to see her and was even more surprised that she remembered me between all of her patients. I felt bad that I didn’t recognize her but keep in mind I had horrible double/blurred vision the entire time I was in L&D and was totally out of it. Continue Reading Day 41: About Those Nurses Again……
Day 5: It Seems Mornings are Rough!
December 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM | Posted in Baby Romaezi | 10 CommentsTags: Baby, bed rest, food, High Risk Pregnancy, IV, pre-term labor, ultrasound
All in all we got a decent night’s sleep on the new floor. We started to stream “The Girl Who Played with Fire” last night using the crappy WIFI they have here and that didn’t work out so well at first. I knew that once we got it playing I would zonk out. Which I did. I think I made it 10 minutes into the movie. Oh well, something to look forward to tonight. The nurses came in at midnight and 4 a.m. to bug me for vitals, temperature, baby’s heart rate, etc. but other than that I slept well. I was STARVING again by 5 a.m. but forced myself back to sleep. Eventually I got to order breakfast.
Then the doctors got to work for the day and before I could eat my food we did a bit more monitoring of baby. You see, there is pretty much no amniotic fluid left for him so we are really worried about umbilical cord compression. He had a few dips in heart rate this morning that the doctors didn’t like. So they strapped me back up to the monitors for a few hours and told me no breakfast until kiddo
Making Progress!
December 27, 2010 at 1:56 AM | Posted in Baby Romaezi | 4 CommentsTags: Baby, bed rest, food, High Risk Pregnancy, hospital stay
Do you see that!!!??? That’s right. Real solid food and it is on MY plate. I got to eat food today people. Once the magnesium got itself out of my system I started to get HUNGRY and the nurses came in with a menu and said I can have FOOD now! It was just chicken noodle soup and a baked potato but I had to take it easy. I wasn’t too sure how my body would react to food after having that nasty magnesium but I didn’t get sick.
This morning after they took me off of the magnesium the doctor wanted to watch baby’s heart rate for 2 hours. After 3 hours I guess she wasn’t a huge fan of what she saw because she came in and said she wanted to watch us for another few. Eventually, baby got his bearings about him and straightened that
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