Ian's 1st Cooked Puree

The new steamer that we had bought weeks ago, has finally been used today, for the purpose for which it has been bought - for cooking Ian's food. (We have actually been using it to steam buns.) This week, we have cooked Japanese sweet potatoes for Ian. It has been recommended as a good first food for babies, for the nutrients that it contains. Many people may think that this is a root vegetable, but it is actually a taper.

Sweet potatoes from an organic store, bought on Wednesday.

This is the first time that I have purchased this variety of sweet potato, without knowing that it is the white-fleshed, instead of the orange-fleshed type. I cut up the potatoes into small pieces first, so that it would be easier to blend it immediately after cooking. However, the colour started to brown pretty quickly. I only managed to peel and cut 3 potatoes before deciding it would be better to steam whatever that was on hand, in case more turned brown.

What a handy steamer! Steam and steam... for 30mins.

Once 30mins was up, the cubes were put into the blender, adding some piping hot liquid that was collected on the steamer's tray. I did not expect that it was so hard to blend this. The blades only moved for a second before the food stopped moving inside the container. I had to open up the lids and pushed the food around, then blend again. I repeated this many times before calling it a day.

Off to the freezer you go!

The 3 small potatoes actually filled up 4 baby cubes - 3 of which went straight into the freezer, as soon as each got filled up. The last cube actually went into the refrigerator, and was mixed into the Happybellies brown rice cereal a few hours later.

Probably the next time I make these purees, I would add more water in order to get the blades move a little more.