I've been reading your work for a good few years now, and i find it so helpful that we seem to have had babies at the same time. My daughter is a few months older than yours I think, and your newsletter was always a lovely read, but now its infused with these additional qualities. Firstly a recognition of shared experience - locating that one good egg in your NCT group! - but I'm also finding it reassuring to read your experience of parenting and cooking. Sometimes i worry that I'm loosing my curiosity and interest in cooking, because i feel so pressed for time, and often feel inexplicable pressure to feed my daughter a certain way, but your clear simple recipes and notes on dinners you eat and feed your daughter make me feel a little less pressure. On a very basic but vital level they also provide inspiration for my weekly shop when i'm feeling flat out. So thank you!
PS: my favourite baby recipe of the moment: 1 mashed banana; 1 egg; enough porridge oats to make a paste, fried as patties in a little oil, dipped in maple syrup (for me), eaten squished into her fist while wandering around the flat for Margot.
One of my baby son's favourite meals was quite similar to that tuna confection.
A can of tuna, snipped spring or white onions, a handful of halved butter beans, some mayo, creme fraiche or sour cream, and a few minced capers stirred together, spread on one slice of toast and flashed under the grill with another slice of buttered toast squished on top. Later we began adding grated cheese, and a few pieces of minced gherkin and spreading mayo on the bread before it was toasted because I noticed that like me, he loved pickles and vinegar.
thank you nina! we often wonder to ourselves, why don't we make this for us? when we do something for her. cooking for her gives us access to a different mindset that produces some fun things!
I love how different spaces can be used by different groups of people, at the same time or at various times of day. And also how requirements for spaces change as we grow/have kids etc. My requirements now are always does it have good coffee and is there space for her to run about? (Or can these things be achieved in tandem!) Also I have so much love for public libraries and all they do.
Peanut butter noodles is one of my favorite store cupboard dinners! I think it's also the highest use for leftover plain chicken breast. Sometimes I just make the peanut dressing and dunk the chicken and whatever crudite-type vegetables I have in it and call that dinner. (If I were just serving grown-ups, I'd add some chili crisp to the dressing...)
I've been reading your work for a good few years now, and i find it so helpful that we seem to have had babies at the same time. My daughter is a few months older than yours I think, and your newsletter was always a lovely read, but now its infused with these additional qualities. Firstly a recognition of shared experience - locating that one good egg in your NCT group! - but I'm also finding it reassuring to read your experience of parenting and cooking. Sometimes i worry that I'm loosing my curiosity and interest in cooking, because i feel so pressed for time, and often feel inexplicable pressure to feed my daughter a certain way, but your clear simple recipes and notes on dinners you eat and feed your daughter make me feel a little less pressure. On a very basic but vital level they also provide inspiration for my weekly shop when i'm feeling flat out. So thank you!
PS: my favourite baby recipe of the moment: 1 mashed banana; 1 egg; enough porridge oats to make a paste, fried as patties in a little oil, dipped in maple syrup (for me), eaten squished into her fist while wandering around the flat for Margot.
One of my baby son's favourite meals was quite similar to that tuna confection.
A can of tuna, snipped spring or white onions, a handful of halved butter beans, some mayo, creme fraiche or sour cream, and a few minced capers stirred together, spread on one slice of toast and flashed under the grill with another slice of buttered toast squished on top. Later we began adding grated cheese, and a few pieces of minced gherkin and spreading mayo on the bread before it was toasted because I noticed that like me, he loved pickles and vinegar.
Ooh I like the sound of that! She was quite interested in pickles when she tried them and things in toast is always very appealing!
I've heard of quite a few babies enjoying pickles. Maybe it's the sweet notes? Or they're vinegar heads like me!
I really loved this but especially eating notes for Ursula. I read aloud the butter bean fritters paragraph to my partner and he said, “yum”.
thank you nina! we often wonder to ourselves, why don't we make this for us? when we do something for her. cooking for her gives us access to a different mindset that produces some fun things!
I love how different spaces can be used by different groups of people, at the same time or at various times of day. And also how requirements for spaces change as we grow/have kids etc. My requirements now are always does it have good coffee and is there space for her to run about? (Or can these things be achieved in tandem!) Also I have so much love for public libraries and all they do.
yes it's such an interestingly different experiences of public space! i am really missing the library now it's being renovated
Peanut butter noodles is one of my favorite store cupboard dinners! I think it's also the highest use for leftover plain chicken breast. Sometimes I just make the peanut dressing and dunk the chicken and whatever crudite-type vegetables I have in it and call that dinner. (If I were just serving grown-ups, I'd add some chili crisp to the dressing...)
an all time favourite! and great thought about adding crudités. I was very excited to introduce it to ursula