fresh pasta salad

In Milan is really hot now and temperature quite never goes under 30 degrees, the result is that inside kindergarden kids are always so sweaten, that are really wet, every day when I am going to take Momochan I have to take home, shower and change dresses :(
The result is that obviously Momochan is not hungry at all. I tried to give her a fresh food preparing a pasta salad mixing small diced mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and fresh basilicum we have on the balcony, Momochan was not really happy about her dinner but however she managed to eat everything even if with a little effort  ;)

sweet truffles for Carnival

DOLCETTI DI CARNEVALE
(done by Momochan in kindergarden)

1 kg di biscotti secchi
300 gr cacao
300 gr zucchero
500 gr burro
1 bustina di cocco
un pò di codette colorate

PREPARAZIONE
Sciogliere il burro col il cacao e unire lo zucchero e i  biscotti sbriciolati, formare delle palline e passarle nel cocco o nelle codette colorate
Tenere in frigo fino al momento di servire.

rice and veggies

Momichan needs to eat a lot of veggies, pity is she doesn't like so much and most of the times she leaves the veggies in the dish :)
Anyway she has her own preferred veggies, most of all she asks me to cook broccoli or cabbage and carrots; sometimes I can give her also zucchini, onions and other types but chopped so little she can hardlyfeel the taste ; )
For today's lunch I thought it could be a nice idea to mix every ingredient inside her meal and make something colorful so here it is a simple "spring rice" as we call it: rice, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, eggs, ham :)
Momichan didn't leave anything, she finished all the food YEAH !

mc donalds snack :)

Daddy is home this afternoon so we can stay a little togather. We have to go out to buy the special drops for Momichan to help her sleep and as we are all hungry we want to have a snack at the nearby McDonalds :)

Momichan wants fries and nuggets, a little novelty helps me choose what to drink for her, there is a new banana/strawberry drinkable yogurt, she loves it so much that I have to buy two :)

Daddy takes two big hamburgers, I take a ice cream and a chiken wrap HUNGRYYYYYY :)

We are really hungry today, eventually can be for the weather ? it is cloudy and cold .... bah !

Momichan prepares meatballs :)

Today is a special day, daddy is home and Momichan too because is holiday so we have thought to prepare meatballs and to go Ikea for a special treasure hunt *

Daddy cuts in very tiny pices the veggies and ogather with Momichan they mix togather the veggies with fresh minced meat then ..... Momichan prepares the meatballs all by herself ! she has made 73 meatballs, taking always the same small quantity of meat and veggies from the blue bowl (see foto) and rolling the paste in her tiny hands :)

She was totally concentranted, she seemes an adult nearly HAHAHA what a special kid I have ^___^

Later when we came back home from Ikea store we cooked togather the meatballs and with a lkittle white japanese rice and a bowl of broccoli, cabbage and carrots we completed the menu :)

Here you can see Momichan with her 73 meatballs (foto on the right) and sitting at the table (foto on the left) with her meatball dish cooked and ready to be eaten, she sais the meatballs were wonderfully tasting HAHAHAHA the magic of doing food yourself HAHAHA

obentou :)

Momichan is getting out from kindergarden at 16.00 PM so every day I am preparing something to take her as snack :)
I am using bento boxes though she is not yet eating obentou, I am just filling the box with (like in this case) fruit juice pack, banana yogurt Yomino, some cookies shaped animals and some small chokolate easter eggs :)

pizzaaaaa !

Today will be a special day, we have a pizza for midday, Momichan will do her by herself and after we will go to Milan to see acquarium and museum.

This morning we have our usul walk to the center of the town to get some pizza mixture at the local bakery coffee shop.

We want to have pizza for dinner but most we want Momi to amuse trying to cook something herself.

Once home while daddy is teaching her how to make a small pizza from a small ball of material, I put some tomato sauce, sliced mozzarella and oregano inside some bowls and put in front of Momichan.

In the meantime she has already done a pizza she wants to decorate. She starts putting some sauce on it with the aid of a spoon and of ... daddy ! (she has put a lot and daddy has to take off some) then we teach her how to put the sliced cheese showing on the other big pizza daddy is doing. Last thing I let Momichan taste and smell the oregan to understand if she wants some on her pizza and she decides it smells good and may get her pizza tasty so she put some.

As both pizza are ready we put them inside the pre-heated oven and we wait while cleaning around, Momichan prepares the table putting dishes, tools and glasses for everybody.

Well the result this time is not bad, guess the pizza is a little high, we do not have flour so is a little difficult to make a thinner pizza but Momichan is satisfied of her result and we are all hungry HAHA

progresses

Momichan has been ill since friday and today finally she has come back to kindergarden, no more fever. As soon as we arrive we discover half of her class is home ill HAHAHA more than 12 kids !!! WOW anyway in the meantime at home we have done pizza and cooked meatballs with veggies and she has helped making them also she has finally learnt to go bathroom to make either pipi or ... the other thing directly into the wc ! (just one week ango she has never done "popo" without having her nappies, normally she does during the night and I find in the morning when I change her, now she is able to go bathroom all by herself, do and clean YEEEEEEEEEEE ! she is so proud about it ^____^

cooking meatballs

This morning we have gone shopping at supermarket and we have bought veggies and fresh minced meat. Once home we have involved Momichan to cook.
Daddy has chopped in very small pices carrots and zucchini and Momichan has mixed the veggies with the fresh meat forming some meatballs she has put in the pan.
The result was not bad, tasty meatballs she has eaten quick togather with a plate of potatoes and broccoli we have served for lunch.

Momichan likes to help in the kitchen, emptying the washing mashine, putting shopping in the fridge, cooking food, preparing the table but most of all she likes to help daddy in cooking and looking what he is doing ^O^
Recently she also wants to experiment new tastes and mixes so I buy different veggies and mix togather to give her new tastes, normally we eat Ikea meatballs but this ones we have made offered Momi the chance to eat fresh meat and fresh veggies alltogather knowing how has been done and because she has helped it was obviously more tasty :)

Also I try to involve Momichan at the supermarket when we buy food, asking her what she would like and asking her if she recognize the various fruits and veggies and foods around and I must say she is very clever she knows everything more or less and sometimes she is the one to tell me "hey mum look .... (last week) black carrots !" or if there is a new product or something she likes or want to try. She never ask me to take junk food except sometime fries just because the bag has a Hello Kitty on it and hides a sourprise but normally she wants yogurt, fruits (she loves strawberries and raspberries, mandarines, bananas, apples and some others, she also likes fruit salads and fruit purea sometimes.

Momi makes pizza !

Here we are at home !

This morning we have decided as daddy is home free we have occasion of doing something togather so we want to have pizza this evening for dinner.

Just before midday we have gone out to our preferred coffee shop and we have bought half a kilo bread paste and now Momichan and her dad are in the kitchen to make a big pizza ^O^

I have chopped a couple of mozzarella cheese and taken tomato sauce out of the fridge, a special sauce not liquid like most one but a bit thick and with pieces of tomato inside.

Momi is happy to cook with daddy I have also a cute yellow cook apron for her like real chef (daddy wears one green) but I guess she is not really realizing what she is doing because she still have some lines of fever, we will make another pizza next week when she will be better anyway for the moment the result seems yummy enough and Momichan is quite proud of her result (I have helped her putting tomato sauce on her pizza and given her the slices of cheese) now we have to put in the oven and wait about 10 minutes.

The big pizza has been made by daddy, the small one by Momichan.

When we finallay sit at the table Momichan eats her creation and some of the big one, cheese has melted gorgeous and this tomato sauce is perfect, pizza has come wonderful and we all eat a lot, despite fever Momichan is hungry ^O^

The strange thing is that if we buy three pizzas we hardly can eat but now with just one and half more or less we are completely full ! HAHAHA

yomino

Recently in the supermarket we have found new product, a new creamy yogurt (strawberry, honey and banana) that we can take outside home. Fo Momichan and me is really comfortable because we are always in a hurry in the morning but in this way is just enough for us to take one Yomino outside the fridge and Momichan can have her breakfast easily while I take her kindergarden ^^
A cute sourprise for her is that in every box of Yomino she can find stickers of Smurfs, she likes so much ^O^
She loves strawberry and love honey, this morning I also bought banana, we will see if she likes tomorrow.

dinner

Special dinner tonight for Momichan, a lot of veggies decorated by some carrot butterflies ^^
I cannot check at kindergarden if she is eating veggies or not and Momichan recently has a problem connected with veggies, she has to eat a lot
because she has problem going bathroom. The problem is she doesn't want to eat in the evening, everytime we have to stay sitting at the table nearly 40 minutes just to eat half of the dish and every thing she puts into mouth she sips a little water so inside belly she has more water than food !!!
Every day in the evening is a fight to make her eat something and I cannot leave it and say, "well you do not have hunger, you will eat tomorrow no problem" because we are giving Momi a special medicine she had to take for one month to help her but if doesn't eat the medicine doesn't work and as in kindergarden she doesn't eat veggies, every day without veggie is dangerous for her. Let see this evening if she will eat this dish.

halloween recipies

(ARTICLE ONLY IN ITALIAN FOR HALLOWEEN)

Se volete organizzare una piccola festa per i vostri bambini vi basta poco, qualche decorazione con piatti di carta a tema (Lidl vi può aiutare costano poco), ragnetti di plastica, qualche scheletro di cartone (in caqrtoleria si trovano a poco, candele (poste in alto però cosi che i bimbi non possano fare danni e farle cadere accidentalmente) e naturalmente un piccolo menù a tema, Per quello eccovi alcune ricette facili facili:

BISCOTTI DI RAGNO

- 20 biscotti tipo ringo o comunque tondi

- fili di liquerizia nera o anche colorata (Ikea la vende gialla e rosa)

- piccole caramelline rosse per fare gli occhi

PREPARAZIONE
Tagliate 8 piccoli fili di circa 5 cm e infilateli nel ripieno del biscotto 4 per lato e poi con della crema meglio se colorata di nero, applicate gli occhietti.

TORTA DEL UOMO LUPO

- 300 gr di zucca

- 3 patate medie

- 1 cipolla

- 3 uova

- brodo

- latte

- pan carrè

- pan grattato e noce moscata

- olio di oliva

- salvia e rosmarino se volete

PREPARAZIONE

Tagliate la cipolla e fatela rosolare in olio di oliva. tagliate patate e zucca e fatela insaporire in padella con le erbe e la cipolla fino a che non sono bel cotte, poi frullatele e schiacciatele cosi da farne una purea. Fate ammollare il pan carreè nel latte, sbattete le uova, unite tutti gli ingredienti e poi prendete uno stampo per plum cake e versateci il tutto.

Infornate a 150 gradi per 40 minuti e poi servite a fette.

DITA MOZZATE

- wurstel

- ketchup

- mandorle

PREPARAZIONE

Bollite i wurstel tagliati ametà per qualche secondo in acqua leggermente salata e poi infilate una mandorla intera a modo di unghia per ogni salsicciotto, servite su un piatto con del ketchup e il gioco è fatto.

FRULLATO VAMPIRICO

- sciroppo di lamponi

- gelato alla vaniglia

- colorante alimentare rosso

PREPARAZIONE

Miscelate tutti gli ingredienti assieme ottenendo una composizione cremosa. Tenete in frigo fino al momento di servire. Potete variare il colore usando mirtilli e colorante viola o carote e pesche con colorante arancione, la base va bene sempre di gelato alla vaniglia.

UOVA DI PIPISTRELLO

- uova sode (una per ciascun commensale)

- maionese

- burro

- verdura verde (broccoli o spinaci)

- colorante verde alimentare

- pepe e sale

PREPARAZIONE
Fate le uova sode poi sbucciatele e tagliatele a metà, levate i tuorli e metteteli a parte. Bollite le verdure e fatene una purea da mischiare ai tuorli, salate e pepate, aggiungete il colorante in modo da avere una bella crema verde e riempiteci le uova. Servite su un piatto con fioccheti di maionese.

RISOTTO ALLA ZUCCA STREGATO

- 400 gr di riso (dose per 6 persone)

- 400 gr di polpa di zucca

- burro

- sale e pepe

- cipolla

- brodo

PREPARAZIONE

Fate bollire la zucca e ottenetene una purea. In una padella fate insaporire con la cipolla il riso e poi aggiungtete il brodo e cuocete fino a cottura. Quando è quasi pronto aggiungete la zucca e amalgamate il tutto. Se volete renderlo più cremoso aggiungete del parmigiano a chi piace.

Servite ben caldo.

JACK O'LANTERN

Alla cena non può mancare una torta a tema, procuratevi uno stampo in silicone a forma di Jack O'Lantern e usate per fare più in fretta uno dei preparati Cameo apri e inforna, perfetto ad esempio quello agli agrumi, con l'aggiunta di colorante arancio avrà il colore perfetto oppure potrete decorare la torta con marzapane colorato e fare i dettagli della faccia di zucca ^^

eating time in kindergarden

(image taken from the net)

Today is the first day Momichan will eat inside kindergarden, I am curious about what they will have. Every kid has a bag which contains towel, bib and cup taken from home, everyone has to use his own items and put inside the bag after use.
Next week Momichan will have full time and will also stay for sleeping time until 16.15 PM, and as Sampei will have for a while to work also in the morning I will be alone for lunch ! I will have a lot of free time now ^___^

hello kitty food !

I had read about limited hello kitty corn flakes and I had also written to Sanrio to know if it was possible to have or buy somewhere but seemed impossible, this morning we were at the supermarket and we found ! also they were selling hello kitty salad, non something special but anyway it was the cheaper salad in the shop, the same type of salad I always buy at home but not in a hello kitty envelope so here it is.

I have to look better around because there also may be hello kitty fruit juice, I know seems stupid but Momichan loves hello kitty and can be a good idea to make her eat some foods that normally she vould discard and the juice bottle I can always give a wash and reuse filled with another juice ^^

ciao ciao

Hello Kitty Easter Eggs

Today is raining, as everyday I take Momichan to kindergarden and come back home for cleanings and other but this morning I went with a friend to the local supermarket and found some cute little Hello Kitty choko eggs. I bought to give Momichan as present to make her happy because today we cannot go out playing at the park.

Momichan appreciated so much and for the first time she gave me a kiss and said "thankee mummy" without I even asked for ^^

ciao ciao

Onigiri !!!!

This evening for dinner I made onigiri.

Well, actually the rice was not suitable, did not stiched enough so the onigiri distroyed easily but anywas Momichan appreciated and amused eating them, I made six, three filled with cheese and three filled with salmon I cooked with a little butter in a pan and crumbled into small pieces.

Chinese Food

Today wee went to chinatown for shopping and we bought some new food. We found a new food store who incredibly sells japanese sweet potatoes, you know ? the ones violet in colour which normally you cannot find. You can see in the foto the products we bought: violet sweet potatoes, chinese cabbage, chinese pasta, meat gyoza and bunny bread filled with azuki YUM YUM

We cooked the various foods, we added some more veggies for Momichan who was totally excited about the bunnies ^^

Hello Kitty Ice Cream

This afternoon we took the bicicles and went supermarket to buy something for dinner. Inside the freezer of the supermarket I found a box of Hello Kitty ice cream .... (foto of the ice cream you can see over here) you can obviously understand Momichan went crazy completely ! she embraced the box and runned away happily shouting with a smile starting from one ear and finishing near the other but you probably know, with babies is difficult to understand if they want something because they really want it and understand what it is, or if it is just because in this case, it was related to Hello Kitty which Momichan loves.

Unespectedly instead Momichan has perfectly understood that this box contains ice creams and she wanted to eat (luckily theese ice creams are little, the perfect size for a baby of 2 years old).
As soon as we came home and we finished dinner I opened the box and gave Momichan her ice cream, she was waiting for it since we came home and I put the box inside the fridge.
Well you can clearly see she is eating entire ice cream, she finished it all !!!

I just could not believe ! my baby was eating an entire ice cream and she was neither getting dirty about ice cream all over dresses and arms HEHEHE

Momichan, よく　できいました！とても　じょうずでした！

ciao ciao

Bento For Momichan

(if you want to read in italian click here)

Momichan is now one year and a half so she is able to eat by herself with spoon or fork, she can also drink from every glass or bottle using a straw and she amuses so much in discovering the new things she can do.
As it is so hot now, days are long and light goes away after nine o clock we are often in the park or in granny's house and to be sure Momichan is eating correctly (granny uses a little too much butter) I prepared this lunch: pennette with ragout (beaf meat with onion, carrots and celery) and a little basket of blackberries she seems to get crazy about in this period.
The bottle is full of fruit tea with addition of vitamin C.