Zucchini are a summer favorite: lightly sweet background flavor, soft pulp and skin, easy to digest, so versatile. A perfect baby food ingredient! Today I’m using the zucchini for a tasty pasta dressing. I will enhance the zucchini flavor roasting them and than I will create a pesto adding pistachios and smoked ricotta. This recipe is lovely for babies (considering the texture I would recommend it starting from 9 months […]

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 win win situation 🙂 Lentils are an excellent source of nutrients like vitamins A, C, K, omega3 fatty acids, copper, protein, […]

Can I add salt to my baby food? that’s a very common question that I receive on my blog. The reply is simple and without doubts: no! I’ve been reading and trying to keep me updated about the latest medical researches and trends on baby food and baby diet. A lot of things changed through the years, but the NO added sugar, NO added salt rule has not changed, not […]

School lunch…if you follow me on Instagram (that’s the link) you might have noticed that I take lunch boxes very seriously. The truth is that I try to offer Luca and Alex healthy, tasty and fun food at home and I can’t just “let it go” when it comes to what they eat at school. I just can’t. Through the summer I worked on a LunchBox series: 4 videos to share with […]