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Fiona's Fillable Finger Food Patties

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Always nice to hear from someone who appreciates our efforts (although by the sounds of things it's really Moomin's efforts). Even nicer when she pays it forward with another recipe. Thanks Fiona.

“Since I've had so many great ideas from your blog
(I'm about to try the chickpea burgers) I thought I'd share one back.  This has
been our favourite 'staple' finger food for going out and about and can be
varied in lots of ways.
 
Fiona's Finger Food Patties

3 tablespoons plain flour
3 tablespoons milk
1 egg
a little butter for frying
the filling of your choice
 
  • crack the egg into the four and mix well
  • add milk a little at a time to form smooth
    batter
  • add some filling – I've used: mashed banana and
    cinammon, green beans and cheese, peas, sweetcorn, leftover sweet potato – you
    get the idea
  • heat a frying pan with butter then when it is
    smoking slightly pour in fritter sized circles of batter (about a dssp each I
    reckon).  Cook over medium heat and when wee bubbles of air appear at the top,
    flip over and cook another couple of mins.
My baby loves these – they can be taken out and
about easily…are nice on their own or spread with soft cheese or whatever else
you fancy.”

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Is anyone still doing chip-sized?

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Because it occurs to me that we are not, and nor have we been for some time. I'm wondering if it's been since she got some teeth?

Keeping the carrots chip-sized definitely important when you are starting off, that's for sure, as it seems to be as important that the food can easily drop out of their mouths as get in there so a long, thin piece is essential. But as Babybear has got older and more active, I think her need for texture has increased to the point where she would now be most frustrated with a puny finger of food.

She likes full-sized tortillas, quartered sandwiches, big hunks of meat, individual Yorkshire puddings and whole new potatoes, bananas, apples and pears. She derives a great deal of pleasure from closely inspecting everything that is about to go into her mouth (well, on a polite day – to be fair she fairly often inhales things without giving them a second glance) and a standard-issue chip of veggie would not satisfy. She turns things around in her hands, bashes them on the table, rubs them in the puddles of water that inevitably cover her highchair before either eating them, dropping them off the side or popping them into her Tommee Tippee bib for later. It's a rich and rewarding sensory experience for a 10-month-old baby, and a monumental pain in the arse for the person who has to clean it up.

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What size is a chip?

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Well, chip-sized obviously… I mean, durrrr.

Although… it has been pointed out to me that a chip in the US is what we in sunny Glasgow call a crisp. Why? Because it is crisp, my friends. We are but simple souls.

In the States and Australia and no doubt other wrong-thinking young upstart countries, they made a wee mistake and called them chips, despite the fact that they are more slice-like in character. (Listen, don't get me started, in Australia they call chips 'hot chips', they call sweeties 'lollies' and if you order a 'scallop' in a fish and chip shop there you are in for a horrible surprise.)

So from now on I am happy to refer to the classic Rapley chip-sized baby portion as 'a finger' (as in 'a finger of fudge is just enough' – what do you mean you don't know what I'm talking about? It's an advertising classic, surely?)

That's an adult finger. However, a fist-sized portion will continue to refer to the infant fist, rather than the mitts of a hairy-arsed adult.

Has this helped? I fear not…

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