Meia has been eating porridge for quite some time, I feel rather 'tired' seeing the porridge, I guess Meia feels bored eating the same thing everyday too. Hey she's after all a little human being. We adults get sick of the same food if we eat it daily. So I decided to cook pasta for her. I was at my mom's and I saw that mom has a packet of ABC mini pasta in the fridge. So I told my grandma that I am bringing it home to cook for meia.
Yesterday Meia had her first taste of pasta, n I am proud to announce : - She LOVES it!!! the first spoon of pasta was rather funny, she has this expression 'ehhh this is not porridge?' after that she kept wanting more, usually for her porridge, I always have to coax her to open her mouth, chew n swallow, but yesterday, she wolfed it down :) Here's how I prepared it : -
I used chicken drumstick to make the stock
Ingredients
1 chicken drumstick (complete with skin)
3 cups of water (for stock)
3 cups of ABC pasta (approx)
1 mini chicken egg yolk (home grown chicken) for ppl who don't know, I have 3 hens as pets in the house
Method
1. Bring water to boil, add chicken drumstick in n simmer for 1 min, this is to get rid of the 'dirt'
2. Pour 'dirty' water away n add abt 3 cups of water. Dump the chicken in n cook for 20 mins
3. Put the abc pasta in the slow cooker, add water n cook for 2 hrs till soft... for toddlers with more teeth, don't have to cook till so soft
4. Scoop out some of the stock, leftover can be kept in the fridge for use the next day. Peel chicken meat into small tiny pieces, beat an egg n cook it thoroughly, lastly, add in the pasta n bring to a boil.
I did step 4 half an hr before meia's lunchtime.