I've always enjoyed cooking for people. Not for myself... But I've cooked for my mum, friends, boyfriends and now for Brody, whereas I'm currently living on ready meals.
French culture is brilliant to share meals: we can do a last minute crepe party, raclette in winter, cheese & wine, etc. I love the excitement of pleasing people - if I was a stressed cook, I'd work in a restaurant! Moving away from England was also food related - school canteens in France are healthy and children have a 3-course meal.
So after B's dad's standards being his dad's cooking, I lost interest as it was too much: being asked how to cut things or told which knife I HAD TO use pushed me away from the kitchen, except to make Brody's meals.
One day we had a big fight as adding salt in baby's dish was out of the question for me. Our baba dives in some of our food sometimes and I believe he gets enough bad stuff from us to make his meals full of salt on top of it. I later read through Brody's French health book where it says to not add salt to baby's meals until they're 2 years old which I was very happy about!
French culture is brilliant to share meals: we can do a last minute crepe party, raclette in winter, cheese & wine, etc. I love the excitement of pleasing people - if I was a stressed cook, I'd work in a restaurant! Moving away from England was also food related - school canteens in France are healthy and children have a 3-course meal.
So after B's dad's standards being his dad's cooking, I lost interest as it was too much: being asked how to cut things or told which knife I HAD TO use pushed me away from the kitchen, except to make Brody's meals.
One day we had a big fight as adding salt in baby's dish was out of the question for me. Our baba dives in some of our food sometimes and I believe he gets enough bad stuff from us to make his meals full of salt on top of it. I later read through Brody's French health book where it says to not add salt to baby's meals until they're 2 years old which I was very happy about!
Sundays fly by making big batches of baby food but I don't mind.
Also Brody spoilt me yesterday as he has started crawling forward, spent a lot of time clapping his hands which is all new and...He has a SECOND tooth!!
Also Brody spoilt me yesterday as he has started crawling forward, spent a lot of time clapping his hands which is all new and...He has a SECOND tooth!!