August 5, 2012

Pumpkin Soup and Baked Potatoes #CookForFamily

Last month I was invited on a Cook For the Family initiative by Daniel. I have been cooking regularly for the kids during the week since they were born. I feel that I am in more control of the types of food that they put in their body and it will be easier for me to introduce healthy foods to them if they ate at home.

The kids love baked potatos and soups. I’ve been trying out different soup recipes from the cook books that I borrowed from the library. A few weeks back I tried my hand at making pumpkin soup for them.

Ingredients

It doesn’t take a long time to prepare the meal. It took me about an hour to bake the potatoes in the oven while it only took half and hour to make the pumpkin soup. I prepared the potatoes and popped them into the oven first before working on the soup as it took a long time to cook.

pumpkin soup

I have tried various toppings with the baked potato before. However the kids all agree that the Japanese Mayo with bacon bits tasted much better then it with sour cream.

Baked Potato

We have baked potatoes at least once a week at home. Most of the time it is accompanied on the side by boiled greens and soup.

What have you been cooking for the family?

(Linking up with Motivational Mondays to find more inspiration to try out new recipes at home with the kids)

Weekend Reflections: A New Chapter for Tiger Girl

August is a month of major changes for us. Tiger girl is moving on to a new chapter in her life as she enters school. I’ve decided to send her to the same school as Doggie boy is currently in so that he will be around to guide her for a few months before he leaves and enters elementary school come Jan 2013.

It seems like it was only yesterday that I was sending Monkey boy to playgroup lessons. In a blink of an eye he is already in Grade 2 and it’s his little sister who just entered playgroup.

We got Tiger girl accustomed to the school since the start of the year as she has followed me on several occassions to send and fetch her brother from school. She also

Tiger girl had and enjoyable 1st day of school. She joined Doggie boy’s class and took part in the cookery lesson and water play session which they had that day. The teacher reported that she didn’t cry even though she did asked for me a couple of times. She could understand and follow the teacher’s instructions and interacted with her brother’s classmates. The only thing was that she was reluctant to stay with her own classmates and left her class to join Doggie boy on her own even though the teacher brought her to her class.

When I fetched her from school she was all smiles and ran over and hugged me. My little girl is growing up so fast. I’m glad that she had an enjoyable 1st day of school.