Wow! What a couple of weeks!! The Pirate Fest went off with only a few minor hitches (but hey, who can control the rain??) It was a great event – I can’t wait to see how the numbers compare to years past and think of ways to keep getting better. Pictures will be up soon, but I’ve got a few other things to catch up on first.
Sometimes I have to just sit back in wonder at Sophie and how much she’s changed in less than 7 months. She went from hardly ever opening her eyes to sitting up and smiling and laughing. Still not much of a talker (nothing discernible, but it does sound like she says “ball” when she’s chewing on the ball). She likes to make noises with the toys in her mouth more than just trying to copy me.
Her palate is expanding as well. Now that she’s figured out how to eat pieces of food, we give her little bites of just about everything. So far, she’s liking most everything. She really likes the yellow squash from the garden – which is good because we’re gonna have a ton of it. I pureed some the other day when I was on a baby food-making kick and she ate it right up. I also pureed some blueberries that were left over and as a bonus could save the water as blueberry juice to give her to drink or to add to cereal. Did the math on blueberries; they have to be $3.00/quart or less to be cost effective. The stuff that comes from the garden is obviously worth converting, but when buying stuff I want to make sure that I’m actually saving money by making her food because if I’m not then I’ll just save the time and buy the jar.
Harvested again yesterday. Pulled the rest of the green onions – just chopped and froze most of those for next year. We dug up a potato mound because it looked like one of the plants was dying and most of the potatoes were large and ready to go. Need to read more about potatoes though because I still don’t know much. Thinned out carrots again and brought a bunch home…going to make chicken and dumplings today with the carrots and potatoes. All we need to do now is raise some chickens and it’ll be a really homemade meal! For this round of squash I just sliced it, blanched it for 3 minutes (and then threw it in an ice bath for about 5), and through it in a bag to freeze. I don’t know how long Sophie is going to like pureed foods so I don’t want to have a bunch that I can’t use. I can always put this bunch in the food processor or I can just heat it up and cut it into chunks for her to eat like that. Tomorrow I’m going to try a new recipe for the squash: fry it in EVOO with onion (from garden), green onion (from garden), green pepper (from garden), and snap peas (from garden) and some seasoning. I’ll have to check and see if we have any fresh parsley – that’d go good with it.
Well, enough of a break! Back to the monster list that I’ve created for myself today. Hopefully I can get through most of it!
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