Inspiration in the Kitchen – part 1

It might be strange, but some people think that it’s not possible for small children to like broccoli. Why not? There are lots of tasty dishes that include broccoli in their list of ingredients. One of them is “Oscar’s Delight”.

I found that recipe in a book by Annabel Karmel that I got from a friend. I decided to give it a go because the list of ingredients was very short (there are only four of them) and it was a nice way to introduced egg yolk into my Litle One’s diet. Also, that recipe reminded me of the dish I’d often cooked in my child-free time for lunch. Now it seems to have been ages ago.

We’d often buy a mix of

Bedtime books for our Little One – part 2

I’d received a complimentary book with an issue of ‘Mother&Baby’ and it was lying around until our Little One started regularly browsing through it. This book is a very short story about a crocodile, named Mr Crock, who does three things: he reads a book, brushes his teeth and goes to bed.

Although I don’t like the style of the pictures, I must admit that ‘Good night, Mr Crock’ has proved to be a very useful book. After reading this story for a few days

Bedtime books for our Little One – part 1

I absorbed a lot of books and magazines about babies, their development and upbringing when we were trying to start a family. Most of them highlighted the importance of books in a baby’s life, saying that it would be never too early to start reading to your baby, so that we decided that a bedtime book would be worth buying. We’d got one just before our Little One was born and we started reading this book from the first weeks of his life.

It wasn’t a long read at the very beginning. This soft book is about three animals