Operation Baby Food: Take 1

I finally got started on the DIY baby food. First attempts went relatively well. Minor snaffoo in the steamer, but it was easily cleaned up and can be avoided by using more water. And because all text is just a drag to read, especially online...especially this day and age w/ our shrinking attention spans... here's the photo journey...

Tools & Ingredients: rice cooker/steamer, blender, carrots (organic tho only b/c they were cheaper) a sweet potato. 

 Sweet Potatoes diced and ready to go. I looked at the steaming instructions, but while it listed several veggies and H2O amts and times, nada for sweet potatoes so i had to wing it. They were cooked fine... 

not cooked

cooked

... but there was a bit of a problem. Not enough water so it boiled out and left me a sticky sweet potatoey mess, but thankfully it cleaned up easily.            

ummm 'carmelized sw potato liquid' lol

Into the blender we go with ultimately not enough liquid. At first the blades wouldn't even spin very long. But some more water and some stirring and finally we got pureed sweet potatoes. kinda thick. But I was assured that if I'm freezing them, once they thaw they'll be a li'l thinner. That night tho I did give some to the boy and he didn't seem to mind. So all in all, me thinks me did ok. 

all mushed up and ready to freeze

Next, carrots. Pretty much more of the same from a steaming standpoint, errors and all. Because it was a different veg and diff quantity (roughly), I did try to use a different amount of water... But still not enough. More charred pan (again easily cleaned up). The carrots, however, were fine. I did add more water to the blender this time and voila, uber smooth yummy carrots for baby boy.

I do need more lil'l freezable containers tho. I didn't get to the apple, peach & pear I had on the agenda. I did try some ground turkey - the kid was NOT a fan. Not mad at him, lol. Only used that b/c it was available at the time - big sis had requested tacos for her bday dinner... Anyway - primary lesson here? More water. More water. More water!