Baby's first butter!

Rich mentioned tonight that there were a lot more dishes to wash since we got home! Yes, since he was just eating Triple Baconator sandwiches from Wendy's instead of cooking, he didn't have much to wash at all while we were gone!

Rachel brought over a cookbook for babies today, and she wanted to look through it for ideas on what to cook for Maddy. I had been shopping with RA, and bought a bunch of leeks, so when Rachel saw a recipe for Potato and Leeks with Peas, we thought it would be fun to make that!

When the kids were younger, potato and leek soup was one of my favorite things to make, and Rachel recently confessed that she didn't like it at all when she was a kid, but she remembers it fondly now, so she was excited to make a batch for Maddy. We made a bigger pot of it for ourselves, too.

We didn't use peas, because the recipe I use calls for carrots, and we like it that way. Maddy loves pureed carrots (from a jar - when Rachel made some steamed carrots and pureed them herself, Maddy thought they were disgusting!), so Rachel used carrots in her little batch of soup.

So making this soup requires two pans, one little pan for Maddy's version, which is pretty much the same as ours, but with no salt and no added milk. Just potatoes, leeks, carrots and butter. Baby's first butter!

So where was I, before I got distracted by butter? Oh right, the pans, one little saucepan for Maddy, one big soup pot for us. We need the blender, a big bowl for the pureed adult soup, a little bowl for the pureed baby soup, and then some soup bowls for the adults to eat from. Various utensils - knives for chopping and spoons for stirring and eating, so yes, the dishes added up.

The soup was very good though - well, we thought it was, but Maddy wasn't so excited about it. Rachel put her little portion in a bowl with a lid and took it home to try it on her later, and maybe mix in a little rice cereal. Sometimes babies don't like something on the first try, and sometimes they don't like something until they are adults.