Organically Raised- Conscious Cooking for Babies and Toddlers By Anni Daulter. 2010.
Organically Raised teaches parents how to prepare delicious and healthy foods for their babies and children, using fresh, natural ingredients and diverse flavors. The author is a parent and a professional cook and has tested the recipes in the book.
Check out their website here. There are even a few recipes here, so you can ‘try it before you buy it’- trust me, you’re gonna love them.
The first thing I did when I received the book is sit down and read through it. I love reading through cookbooks anyway, and this one was a special treat. The first thing that strikes you when thumbing through are the beautiful photographs. Currently, the book is sitting beside me open to a close-up picture of “Poppy’s Three-Cheese Fancy Panini” and I am not exaggerating when I say it is making me drool.
Tennie's Spanish Veggie Burger Bites With Flaxseed
The book starts out with information on conscious cooking, information about organic food and shopping tips. There’s information on feeding newborns, mindfulness in the kitchen, and nutritional information for children and babies. All of the information in this section of the book should be require reading for expecting or new mothers. It’s all great information and there’s emphasis put on breastfeeding- we all know I’m totally down with that!
The recipe section starts with organic recipes for babies ages 6-9 months, then she moves into talking about expanding your baby’s palate and special diets. It moves into blends, cereals, and yogurt recipes for babies 8-12 months. After that, it goes into recipes geared toward toddlers and preschoolers.
What I love the most about this book is the huge variety of foods and flavors in it. We all know that kids can be so super picky sometimes and the recipes in this book are a great way to introduce different flavors.
MacKenzie's Superstar Sweet Potato Pancakes With Sour Cream
We tried a bunch of recipes out of Organically Raised and everything was a hit. I used my phone to take pictures of everything I made, but like I said last week, my phone totally crashed and I lost all my pictures. Anni was kind enough to supply me with some of the photos from the cookbook to use in this post, and I think you see what I mean about how beautiful this book is- her pictures are much prettier than my smartphone ones! The veggie burger bites and sweet potato pancakes pictured were some of our very favorites of the recipes we tried- especially the sweet potato pancakes. They were even good cold, from the fridge the next day! The other things we tried were: austin’s italian sun-dried tomato wheel pasta with fresh basil capers, and parmesan cheese; river’s greek falafel bites with pita and cucumber-dill dipping sauce; duke’s delicious mozzarella bruschetta; and piper’s teriyaki chicken sushi rolls- and out of all of those things, there wasn’t a single dish my kids wouldn’t eat. (In fact… I could go for some of that bruschetta right now!)
This is just an all-around excellent cookbook. If you are looking to improve the eating habits of your own family, or you’re looking for a gift for a new mother, I would highly recommend this book. And here’s a hint for you: the best deal is on Amazon! Click here to see for yourself: Organically Raised: Conscious Cooking for Babies and Toddlers
Now… all this talking about food’s made me hungry. I’m off to make some paninis!
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I just had one for a before-workout snack. They’re organic too. There’s a half serving of fruit in each one of these. I will definitely be getting these again!
