Baby Basics
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Toddler Recipes
Red Beet Gnocchi
Super fun recipe: the final result will happily surprise your kids, the vibrant pink color of these gnocchi is simply in Technicolor 🙂 The recipe is very simple and ready in 20 minutes. I simply added to the traditional potato gnocchi some boiled red beets. That's it, nothing more! Beets ...
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Broccoli meatballs
Meatballs: they are a mom's life saver when it comes to picky eaters. It's difficult to find a kid that doesn't like meatballs, and you can really hide everything in meatballs, as long as they are tasty and with a nice golden surface. I particularly love this recipe because even ...
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Crostata with homemade Nutella – no butter, no eggs, no milk!
Crostata, tart, gallette. Three different ways to express the same concept: a flaky crumbly crust filled either with fruit jam or with a chocolate mousse and decorated on top with the same dough of the crust. Simply delicious, tremendously easy to prepare. Crostata is the very traditional sweet that you ...
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Mini frittata
A beautiful and fast idea for breakfast + a fun way to offer a complete meal to your kids. Frittata is the Italian version of an omelette, in today's recipe I used tons of ingredients for a very tasty final result: cheese, ham, fresh veggies, olives, herbs, bread...and of course ...
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Family Recipes
Baked Teriyaki Chicken with Vegetables
This is one of my favorite family recipe, super kid friendly thanks to the bite size and the Teriyaki sauce taste. It's easy to make, healthy and I can substitute the vegetables following the seasons and pending what is available at the farmers market. I like to serve the Teriyaki ...
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Rice Soup with Veggies
For the past few weeks we had an unusual cold weather here in Los Angeles and I totally lost my voice right before Christmas (not the perfect time of the year, I know...). It is not back 100% but at least I can communicate without using sign language 😉 The ...
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Chickpeas and cauliflower soup
My favorite recipes are the ones that can happily feed the whole family: baby AND the rest of the family at the same time. We all have very busy schedules and being able to prepare one meal for everyone in less than one hour using the same healthy ingredients for ...
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Baked fish sticks – Gluten free
White fish fillets might not be the kind of food kids dream about, but if you transform them in fun tasty crunchy sticks and you call them "sharky fingers" the situation might drastically change in your favor 😉 They were such a hit last night at home that I didn't ...
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Baby Led Weaning Ideas
Lentil Veggie Almond Tots – gluten and egg free
Red lentils are definitely one of my favorite ingredients to cook for my kids: from a nutritional point of view lentils are one of the healthiest foods you can think about and from a culinary point of view they are creamy, delicate in flavor (and easy to cook). Definitely a ...
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Green Grissini Bread with Spinach
I don't count the number of times I gave a "grissino" to my kids as a snack or even as a teething distraction when they were toddlers 🙂 Grissini are Italian breadsticks: long, crunchy, pencil-sized breadsticks. Such a simple recipe: water + flour + oil + pinch salt. And still, grissini are are ...
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Almond Cookies with Raspberry Jam – Vegan and Gluten Free
For Valentine's Day this year I wanted to prepare something sweet that everyone could enjoy: toddlers/kids/adults. Cookies was definitely the direction to go 🙂 I wanted the cookies to be egg free (so that I could enjoy them too) + refined sugar free (so that the kids wouldn't bounce on ...
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Zucchini Avocado Carrots Savory Muffins +9M
Savory muffins are such a great idea for an easy lunch, for lunch boxes and on-the-go lunches! That's what I like about them:
- 1 muffin is 1 small kid portion.
- They are a fun finger food for the kids. No mess and easy to eat.
- It's a lovely baby ...
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