You wouldn’t think there’d be such a huge selection of cookbooks for kids, but there is! An enormous selection! And when I say “for kids,” I mean recipes for you to make for your kids. Not the ones where your kids do the cooking. Nope, we are a good few years away from that project. I tried baking cookies with Pea a few months ago, and it was a disaster.

I’ve mentioned in earlier posts a couple of my favorite cookbooks, and I now have a new one to add to the list: “Organic Baby & Toddler Cookbook.” It’s another Dorling Kindersley book, which to me is indicative of a book with really lush photography, which really ups the appeal of a cookbook for me. I want to see the colorful, glossy photos of what my hard work might look like in the end. And this book doesn’t disappoint in that area. Some of the reviews of it were rather harsh, some complaints about the author’s view on breast-feeding, in the earlier parts of the book where she discusses nutritional needs of growing babies. I’m not going to go into detail here one way or the other, concerning how I feel about her ideas. I think I’ve made it clear where I stand on breast-feeding: it works for my family in my home, so that’s what we do. For us. In our home. I will say, though, that this book has some fairly progressive ideas about preparing purees for infants which would have scared me quite a bit when Pea was a baby, she being my firstborn and all, but now that I’ve been around the block once with this entire process, I’m really welcoming the author’s ideas. And although right now, we are still doing the traditional introduction of new foods… apples one week, carrots the next, after a few more weeks of this, I’m definitely going to step it up and try some of her purees. The food all looks so incredibly delicious. Dishes such as: Potato & Cheese Dinner, Mediterranean Vegetables & Chicken, Banana & Fig Hot Cereal.

Tonight? Carrots mixed with apples. Who’d have thought it’d work so well together?