Finally a bit of normality is being restored!

Well we have been living in our new place for 2 weeks now and it still looks like a Tasmanian devil has hit after eating a bucketload of sugar! I am really enjoying having a spacious kitchen. I now have a bread machine so I can easily make low salt and sugar bread which Little Miss seems to love!

I haven't properly finished any new recipes recently but I thought I share how we make our own organic almond milk at home.

We have been loving almond milk for a while now. It is great for hot drinks, cereals and cooking and also doesn't seem to put dairy-drinking guests off as much as soya milk can do. When looking at the ingredients I was a bit disappointed at how many ingredients other than almonds and water there were so we decided to try making our own.

This is our method:

Soak around a cupful of plain "raw" (I think almonds usually have a heat treatment) almonds in water overnight. This softens the almonds.

Drain the water and give the almonds a bit of a wash. 

Put the almonds in a blender with around 4 cups of water. Vanilla extract and/or dates could be added for a bit of sweetness but we usually have it plain.

Blend for a few minutes.

Next you need to strain it. We use cheese cloths which are basically fine muslin but you can get nut milk bags and I actually find a fine sieve gets rid of most of the almond bits. Make sure you squeeze the cloth or bag at the end to get out all the liquid you can.

And there you have it, almond milk! You can use the almondy stuff left over in things like curries or add it to porridge. I have also heard of a fudge that can be made but I haven't tried it yet!

Hope you enjoy,

JULES XOXO

Busy busy busy!

It is actually chaos in our house right now. We start moving at the end of this week so there has been lots of packing, cleaning and stressing!

Most of Little Miss' meals recently have been very quick and simple. I have also been using up my freezer stash.

So I don't have too much of a gap in the blog I thought I'd tell you all a few of the meals LM has been having. There is no real need for recipes for these kind of things as quantities don't really matter and you can make it your own. Some of these have pictures and some don't...sorry!

So, we have had:

Couscous with roasted vegetables:

Spaghetti with tomato, vegetable and bean sauce (I blended the sauce):

Potato cakes made by frying patties of mashed potato, spring onions and grated courgette

Some homemade potato and vegetable fingers. This was a similar idea of shaping mashed potato and cooked vegetables into a finger shape and baking them

Pasta with some tahini, soya yoghurt, chickpeas and tomatoes

We have also had a mild curry with rice, some tortilla wraps with vegetables and houmous and some quinoa and vegetables. 

I hope you have been having some great successes with your baby-led weaning. I will be back soon with some more recipes (and a much bigger kitchen! Yippee!)

JULES XOXO