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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Cherry Banana Baby Puffs +6M – Gluten and Dairy Free
Baby Puffs are one of the most viewed recipes here at BuonaPappa and to be sincere I'm not surprised 🙂 Puffs are a perfect baby snack:
- light: it doesn't compromise meals.
- not messy: you don't have to mop the floor if they fall.
- portable: perfect on-the-go snack idea.
- entertaining: my kids spent more ...
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Egg Free Zucchini Turkey Meatballs +9M
Definitely one of our favorite meatballs recipe. Loaded with nutrients and flavor. It's perfect for picky eaters: the zucchini are very well combined with all the other ingredients. They give that extra moist that balances the turkey meat. The fresh tomato sauce receives all the juices from the meatballs and ...
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Ricotta Strawberry Cake +12M
This is a perfect cake for a beginner: easy to prepare, moist and tasty. Strawberries and oranges give a lovely fruity flavor while the ricotta keeps the cake moist. The cake is not over sweet: I added a minimus amount of sugar (you can substitute cane sugar with maple syrup) ...
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