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Hannah Katsman November 3, 2009

Make Your Own Convenience Foods for Your Baby

Parents these days are busier than ever, and the labels on those costly jars and boxes of baby food promise wonderful things. However, babies don’t eat a lot and for a few minutes in the kitchen, you can provide your baby with fresh, “whole,” and inexpensive foods. Gradually more of baby’s food will be cooked with your own. Save even more time by letting your baby eat by herself while you are in the room.

As your baby grows the expense of purchased foods will grow too. Exposing your baby to your taste in food, and developing smart cooking techniques, are long-term investments.

Filed Under: Babies, Toddlers, Children Tagged With: Babies and Baby Food, feed, Frugality, solid foods

Hannah Katsman October 30, 2009

Friday Roundup #17

Here’s the week’s news from Cooking Manager:

In Is This Food Safe to Eat, I prepared a chart to help home cooks when they are storing and eating leftovers. One friend on Facebook said that her mother liked to say, “When in doubt, throw it out.” If you’re not sure whether a food is fresh, don’t eat it. But if you store food correctly and are careful to use it up quickly, you won’t get to the point where you have to make a tough decision. At least not very often.

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Hannah Katsman October 28, 2009

Recipe: Cottage Cheese and Noodles

Wednesday is Recipe Day at CookingManager.Com

This is one of my favorite comfort foods from childhood. A variation on traditional Jewish dairy noodle kugel, my Americanized mother simply called it cottage cheese and noodles. She usually served it on Thursdays, one of her two days for dairy meals.

When I married, she included Cottage Cheese and Noodles along with her baking mix recipe. I’ll share more of her recipes in the coming weeks.

I copied the ingredients as they appear, but for some reason she forgot to mention poppy seed. Don’t skip it. It makes this noodle casserole stand out from the rest.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: casserole, cottage cheese, kugel, poppy seed, vegetarian

Hannah Katsman October 27, 2009

Starting Solids the Easy Way, Feeding Babies Frugally Part III

This is the third in a four-part series on Feeding Babies Frugally.

Part I: The Early Months

Part II: Starting Solids: When and Why

Part IV: Make Your Own “Convenience Foods” for Babies will appear next week. Sign up by email or RSS Reader to get future posts.

People make too much of a fuss over baby foods. Ever since the baby food industry put so much effort into making and selling attractive foods, we feel like we’re depriving our children if we don’t prepare something similar. But you can make good, nutritious food for your baby with a minimum of time. And if you train your baby to eat solid foods on her own, you will save yourself hours of time in the future.

Filed Under: Babies, Toddlers, Children Tagged With: Babies and Baby Food, Frugality, solid foods

Hannah Katsman October 25, 2009

Is This Food Safe to Eat?

mango salsa with tomato, lime and coriander

Every day WikiAnswers.lists dozens of questions about whether it’s safe to eat the three-day-old quiche, or the raw chicken left on the counter. The problem is that every food is stored under different conditions, and this makes a huge difference in how long it keeps. Published guidelines tend to be conservative. If you follow them strictly you may end up throwing out good food.

I wrote up a list of things to consider when deciding about questionable leftovers. The list will help you think about the type of food and whether it was stored properly. But first, examine the food. Leftover food should always look and smell normal.

The list is also a guide for storing foods carefully in the future. You pay good money for your food, why throw it out because it wasn’t put away properly?

Filed Under: Food Safety and Storage Tagged With: containers, Food Safety, Food Safety and Storage

Hannah Katsman October 23, 2009

Friday Roundup #16

I apologize to readers who subscribe by email or RSS, because they haven’t received new posts for the last couple of weeks. It seems to be fixed. Feeds now include recent comments at the bottom. I began a series on Feeding Babies Frugally. The Early Months and Starting Solids, When and Why are already up. […]

Filed Under: Roundup

Hannah Katsman October 21, 2009

Recipe: Homemade Pizza Dough

The recipe comes from Craig Claiborne’s Gourmet Diet, another cookbook belonging to my mother. When the author developed health issues, he rewrote recipes from his previous cookbooks wrote new ones for ketchup, pickles, mustard, and other staples, all without salt.

Homemade Pizza Dough

Ingredients:

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Dough, homemade, pizza, salad pizza

Hannah Katsman October 20, 2009

Starting Solids, When and Why: Feeding Babies Frugally, Part II

This is the second in a four-part series on Eating Frugally. Part I: The Early Months appeared last week. Part III: Starting Solids the Easy Way Part IV: Making Your Own “Convenience Foods” for Babies Sign up to recieve future posts by email or RSS Reader. You can save money on your baby’s food by […]

Filed Under: Babies, Toddlers, Children Tagged With: Babies and Baby Food, convenience food, healthy baby foods, starting solids, toddlers

Hannah Katsman October 14, 2009

Recipe: Homemade Flour Tortillas

This is a simple recipe for homemade tortillas. Kids love to help shape the balls and roll them out. Older kids can stand at the stove. Preparation time: 45 minutes to an hour, including 35 minutes of “resting” time. Allow extra time if you’ve never made them before. Ingredients: 2 cups flour, whole-wheat, white or […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: tortillas, vegetarian, whole-wheat

Hannah Katsman October 13, 2009

Feeding Babies Frugally, Part I: The Early Months

This is the first in a four-part series. Part II: Starting Solids: When and Why, Part III: Starting Solids the Easy Way and Part IV: Making Your Own “Convenience Foods” for Babies will appear later. Sign up by email or RSS Reader to get future posts.

Note: Why discuss breastfeeding on a blog about cooking efficiently? You can’t make breastmilk in the kitchen and I am not going to give recipes for making formula. But if I am discussing easy and inexpensive ways to feed babies I need to start at the beginning. Tips on formula appear at the end.

Filed Under: Babies, Toddlers, Children Tagged With: Babies and Baby Food, breastfeeding

Cooking Manager

Make Your Own Convenience Foods for Your Baby

Friday Roundup #17

Recipe: Cottage Cheese and Noodles

Starting Solids the Easy Way, Feeding Babies Frugally Part III

Is This Food Safe to Eat?

Friday Roundup #16

Recipe: Homemade Pizza Dough

Starting Solids, When and Why: Feeding Babies Frugally, Part II

Recipe: Homemade Flour Tortillas

Feeding Babies Frugally, Part I: The Early Months

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