Cooking with My Baby

            Juicy Red Delicious Tomatoes..... Neil loves tomato soup, this soup is tangy and sweet with hint of pepper. Very simple to make and will be devoured by your kids and family. We can add in baked beans on the toast with avocado butter and turn this into light evening dinner. Tomato Soup Serves 4 Ingredients 12 small tomatoes 2 tsp of sugar 1 tsp of crushed black pepper 1/2 tsp of salt Method: Crush the tomatoes to smooth paste using a hand blender. Strain the tomato juice through a sieve. Do not Discard the leftover crushed tomato in the sieve, we will use it later... No wastage ;) Now add the sugar, salt and pepper according to the taste. Boil the tomato juice over medium heat in a large saucepan for about 7-8 min, until the opaque tomato juice has turned dark red and cooked completely. Serve with chopped fresh basil or croutons. You could stir in a dollop of Cream , if desired. Baked Beans o...

                      Winter is near and almost here.. Winter to me means cozy blankets sipping a cup of warm soup and watching old classic movies. Its lazy wintery evening and you really dont feel like cooking dinner but you crave for something warm , hearty and tasty light meal.. Heres what you do....                         Make yourself a large bowl of CHOWDER.. Whats a chowder????  Well, a simple dish of chowder, in the past considered to be "poor man's food," has a history that is centuries old. Vegetables or fish stewed in a cauldron thus became known as chowder in English-speaking nations, a corruption of the name of the pot or kettle in which they were cooked.                       Here is my feeble attempt to make sweet corn chowder, thick soup of creamy rich sweet corn served in a sour dough brea...

Here comes one more Israel inspired dish, a garlic and tomato soup with Israeli Couscous or Ptitim. Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion was responsible for invention of"Ptitim" in Israel, when rice was scarce. Ptitim is made of wheat flour and toasted in oven and shaped into small dense balls. Ptitim is known as Israeli Couscous or Pearl Couscous outside Israel.- Wikipedia This round whole wheat pasta balls are easy to cook and really absorbs the flavor of sauce in which its cooked. Its great substitute for rice when served with stews. It has kinda chewy texture and these balls double in size when cooked. This pasta can be a great hit with kids.. Neil loved to eat the pasta which I made in tomato and onion sauce. I have a small bag of this pasta which I plan to use more for Neil as he loved the pasta. Also its very quick to make. It also makes a wonderful addition to a warm and comforting soup, which is easy to make and uses the ingre...

              French onion soup is lots of caramelized onion slices floating in a garlicy brown broth served with garlic bread roll. Its soup for soul.. simple with minimal spices. A meal in itself served with toasted garlic bread.                        My parents are both amazing cooks. Both love to experiment with food. Mom will read books and watch cookery shows, modify the recipes and make them. But dad will cook the way he wants at that point of time. He wont be able to re create any of his recipe. These recipes are “ONE SHOT” Cos what he felt like at that point of time and what ingredients he had then, he used them in the amounts, he felt appropriate. This cooking style of his has enabled us to enjoy lots of amazing recipes in unique combinations. But only once….      ...