Baby Shastya Felisya's First Day Eating Breakfast Cereal!

Shastya had her four month doctor visit recently, and she was given the "go ahead" for eating moistened breakfast cereals. We have had so much fun feeding rice cereal to her. She is already an avid eater or foodie it seems! It's like we can't get the food to her fast enough. She just wants more, more, more!

Pompous Produce

I just had to share some novelties I found at the grocery store. The specialty items I picked out for the week included: papaya, cardoon, artichoke, daikon radish, ginger, black radish, kalamata crown figs, and kale! I have so much fun picking out new things at the grocery store, and then trying out random formulas for the products throughout the week.

PAPAYA

CARDOON

 ARTICHOKE

DAIKON RADISH

GINGER ROOT

BLACK RADISH

BOK CHOY

KALAMATA CROWN FIGS

KALE

Arduino Date 3: Fading

We had some more fun with the Arduino and breadboard. This particular tutorial, "fading" went rather quickly for us. I think the example picture helped me figure it out pretty fast. So fast, that Anthony thought that it would be nice to do another new tutorial. I thought it might be nice to stop while we were still having fun! We ended up stopping while we were ahead, and switching activities to yoga at my request. 

Pretty Purple Cabbage Bowls

Purple cabbage is so beautiful and tasty to work with. I put kind of a two to one ratio of purple cabbage to egg noodles for my cabbage bowls. I figured it would be healthier that way. Amazing. I will definitely be making this again.

Cabbage Bowls:

2 Cups Chicken Water (leftover from poached chicken breast)

1 Cup Egg Noodles

1/3 Cup Napa Cabbage

1 Onion

1 Head Purple Cabbage

3 Tb Soy Sauce

3 Tb Balsamic Vinegar

Salt & Pepper

1. Cook noodles in chicken water.

2. Saute onion in a large skillet. Add cabbage, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, and salt and pepper.

3. Add cooked noodles and chicken water to cabbage skillet. Cook until liquid is cooked off or absorbed.

Cold Cereal & Hot Cereal

We needed to make a quick breakfast. I thought of cereal. Anthony thought of adding fruit to it. I got out all the ingredients and washed the fruit. Anthony sliced the apple. We passed baby Shastya Felisya back and forth while we prepared our breakfasts. When we finished prepping, I ate the cold cereal, and Anthony ate the hot cereal.

Fennel Sweet Apple Beet Juice

So this juice tasted and looked a little like Good & Plenty candy product of Hershey, PA: "tasted like," because of the licorice flavor of the fennel, and "looked like" because of the bright happy color. Very interesting combination for a chewable juice with fibrous pulp galore.

Fennel Sweet Apple Beet Juice:

1 Cup Chopped Fennel

1 Quartered Golden Delicious Apple

1 Chopped Red Beet and Greens

Poached Chicken With Fresh Berries Over Napa Cabbage

This salad came to my mind shortly after I returned home from the grocery store with a bunch of great whole fresh ingredients! I did not let the fact that I didn't know what one of the ingredients was deter me from creating a fabulous salad. I mean, I could ball park the ingredient. It was definitely in the cabbage/ greens/ lettuce family. I thought it might be Swiss chard or Chinese cabbage. Anthony and I had just watched an episode of Iron Chef America on Amazon recently, and  the "secret ingredient" on that episode had been Swiss chard. I made our salads for lunch still not completely knowing what our mystery item was.

After lunch I googled Swiss chard. That was not our item. Then I googled types of cabbage. I saw pics of Chinese cabbage and Napa cabbage that looked similar to what I had brought home from the store. Taking a closer look, a certain Buzzle article clarified for me that what I had just used for our salads was indeed Napa cabbage. I told Anthony of my discovery. I laughed as I told him that I had seen Napa printed on the big twisty tie wrapped around my Napa cabbage, and that I had just thought that it said Napa like oranges say Florida, or some produce says California.

Poached Chicken With Fresh Berries Over Napa Cabbage:

1 Raw Chicken Breast

1/2 Head of Napa Cabbage

4 Large Strawberries

Handful of Blackberries

1 Lemon

Black Pepper

1. Drop raw chicken breast into boiling water. Turn heat down a little. Cook until done.

2. Cut cabbage and strawberries. Arrange first four ingredients on two plates.

3. Cut lemon in half. Squeeze lemon juice over salads. Sprinkle salads with black pepper.