Monday, April 18, 2005
Your Daily Sadie
In this picture from the past week, we had put her in a standing position then she held herself up. Mostly. However, I thought this would be a good picture to post to mark the occasion of Sadie having pulled herself to a standing position yesterday, for the first, second and third times.
It was either that or dress her in a chicken suit because she ate chicken for the first time. Heh. That was interesting…
I baked a plain chicken breast, just a little butter in the pan, while making spicy chicken for us. The food processor did a splendid job of turning it into baby food, with just a little water added. It was yummy. Figured if she didn’t eat it I could use it like chicken spread to make a sandwich.
She didn’t like it. Didn’t hate it either, and was kind of intrigued. After a few “do I like this or not” bites, mostly leaning negative, I got out the leftover half of a baked sweet potato, one of her favorite foods. Smooshed a small amount in with some of the chicken, and that went a little better.
Finally I mixed it with pears and she just devoured it. She had 3.5 oz of pears, probably 2 oz or so of chicken, and maybe 1 oz of sweet potato, most of which ended up on the tray. Chicken and pears were a major hit.
Basically the chicken was too bland. Like potatoes, only less so. She likes strong flavors. Or distinctive ones, anyway. She doesn’t seem to be fussy at all, except if things aren’t tasty enough to be interesting. I joked with Deb that I should have put some garlic powder on the chicken, then she’d have eaten it without mixing.
So if she gets sick today, we’ll know it was the chicken. Except if it’s the ice cream my mother insisted on giving her far more than a taste of, as if she was on a mission. We went to my niece Alicia’s third birthday party yesterday.
We’re trying to avoid using the commercial baby food meats, which are reportedly pretty disgusting and not well liked by the target audience. Easy enough to cook an extra chicken breast now and then.