Churros with White chocolate coco cream sauce

I haven't been in the kitchen for the longest time

have so little time these days that the short time i have for myself i spend on my daughter.

anyway, just so i can make her snack time fun i decided to make her some churros.

CHURROS

In a small pan warm, 2 inches of oil. set aside while you prepare your batter.

In another pan simmer 1 cup of water, 1/4 cup of butter & 1/4 teaspoon of salt

add 1 cup of All Purpose Flour and stir until the dough pulls from the sides and forms a ball

Remove from heat and add stir in 4 eggs

and 1/2 cup sugar. mix until well incorporated.

Fill the pastry bag with a star tip with the batter

and pipe onto the frying pan with oil.

fry each side for 3 mins or until slightly golden.

drain in paper towels.

voila... churros!

for the dip

i melted white chocolate chips and mixed them in my coconut cream sauce 

(coco cream with sugar and heavy cream)

i made a horse shoe shaped one for my daughter and she loved it

enjoy.

Colored Milky Pancakes for my Ysabela

I want to make every snack time a fun activity for my daughter Ysabela. 

And at her young age of 1, I often times let her actively help in preparing her snacks. She especially likes mixing batters for cookies and bars. (disclaimer: the clean up parts is the hardest part but you know we'd gladly mop floors just to see our tots happy)

So today, we made colorful mini pancakes. 

BASIC PANCAKE RECIPE

2 eggs
2 tablespoons of sugar

2 cups while milk

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder

2 cups sifted flour

6 tablespoons butter, melted

In a bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients. (flour, baking soda, baking powder)

add the egg, sugar, milk & butter. Mix well until free of lumps.

Divide into bowls and add desired food coloring. (i used yellow, red, blue and green)

mix well and cook on a preheated non stick pan.

enjoy!

Baby Food - Rice Porridgewith flaked steamed salmon

Feeding a baby is not a very easy task.

My hubby told me to treat our little Ysabela with utmost respect when it comes to feeding and by that he meant for me to refrain from doing "play feeding sessions" with Bela. Adios! No more airplane airplane (as when the spoon is the plane).

and with that I challenged myself to cook baby food for my daughter, one that taste good despite the lack of Salt or artificial flavorings.

Porridge with flaked steamed Salmon

In a steamer, steam for 8 minutes a slice of unseasoned salmon fillet (set aside)

In a pan, heat one teaspoon of butter and  brown the sides of 1 piece of boneless chicken breast fillet next saute 4 cloves of garlic, half a shallot and 4 slices of ginger. Add one cup of uncooked rice, mix until covered with the juice of the shallots, oil from the chicken and butter. add 4-5 cups of water and bring to a boil mixing occasionally. cook for 10-15 minutes or until rice and broth has thickened.

once cooked discard the ginger.

What i do is separate the onion, garlic and chicken and then use an immersion blender so my daughter wont choke on big pieces of chicken etc.

enjoy

Baby Food - Baked Golden Potato Croquettes with Salmon & grated carrots

Yesterday, 13th of January was a very stressful day for me. 
1. I was stressing whether or not I'd be able to meet my deadline and finish the political law book I was reading;
2. my daughter got into a lil accident under her nanny's care and hit her head on the breakfast table in the kitchen;
3. The nanny whom I had scolded for the lil accident told me she wanted to quit her job. hayayayyy 


I ended up taking care of my daughter for the rest of the afternoon; and extending my reading indefinitely for a day and bargaining with the nanny to extend her stay until I find a new nanny to take her place. Then I'll have to squeeze in a new task of retraining the new nanny but that's another story.

Here she is in her high chair her lolo bobby bought her

So anyway, i decided I had to do something about Bela's food to  make her enjoy meal times and not resort to force feeding her mashed vegetables & porridge. My hubby also suggested that she be put in her high chair during meal  times to avoid such accidents whenever she tries to violently reject her meals. Sigh Bela. 


as if a bulb lit up, i thought of cooking up a finger food for Bela that she can enjoy eating.




BAKED GOLDEN POTATO CROQUETTES WITH SALMON & GRATED CARROTS


1/2 cup Panko Bread crumbs
2 large potatoes, steamed and mashed
1 fresh salmon fillet, minced or cubed
2 tsp freshly grated parmesan (optional)
1 egg



she did enjoy her meal tonight.
hopefully i could come up with more.