Cooking for three

Alas for the moribund state of this blog… I would love to be the mama blogger who can keep up with a baby, two dogs, three cats, a part-time graphic design contract, and dinners for grown-ups and children, all while shooting daily photos for the baby’s photo blog and managing to shoot photos of food and write about it, with bedtime before midnight.

That hasn’t been me.

Thomas came along in February, and I am not sure *what* I cooked for the first three months. There were a lot of Soup Peddler and Kashi meals. Scrambled eggs. Frozen pizza (the Archer Farms brand from Target makes a few veg pizzas that are pretty good even before you jazz them up with condiments from the back of the fridge). Then we got our Greenling subscription started up again and there were raw ingredients for roasting and sauteeing and salads. Then Thomas started adding Plum and Sprout and Ella’s Kitchen baby food to his nursing menu, and I started to get inspired about mixing things up to keep him from getting bored.

The slow cooker came out of the cupboard. The freezer was restocked.

 And yesterday, Thomas had his first feed-himself finger food, tortillas at Hula Hut, followed by buttered toast sticks at home with Mama today at lunch, and pureed leftover slow-cooker chicken pot pie for supper.So now I expect to start cooking even more, trying to find suppers and lunches that I can share with both husband and baby. And I would dearly love to find the moments to type it all in, to photograph it even. To tell you about dishes like that slow-cooker chicken pot pie, or the pumpkin flan I made at Thanksgiving, or the amazing turkey gumbo created at Christmas. I’ll try. Wish me luck.