Greek Herdsmen Cream

As everyone was thrilled of the Greek Herdsmen Cream I decided to share this recipe with you.
I need to say that I hate garlic as well as onions. I really don't like them. But I didn't mind the garlic in this cream as it puts the special taste to it.

Hope that you'll like it. So here we go:

Ingredients: (for 8 people)
20 black olives
400 g feta cheese
200 g cream cheese with garlic
5 Ts milk
4 Ts tomato puree

Cut the feta cheese in very small pieces (maybe mash it with a fork) and mix it with the garlic cream cheese in a bowl. Add the milk and tomato puree and mix it. Then add the sliced olives and fold them in.
Season to taste with salt, pepper, oregano and paprika.

Enjoy!

Xmas Cookies for Toddlers

Here is a nice recipe I found in a parent magazine. This is a special recipe for babies from 10 month on. It's easy and I hope you'll have fun baking them. You can ask your older kids to help you cutting the cookies :-)

D loves them and gets one every morning for breakfast with his milk.

Ingredients:
125 g wholemeal flour
1 Ts powdered sugar
1 Ts vanilla sugar
1 pinch of salt
75 g butter
25 g sour cream

Preheat the oven on 180°C / 356°F
Knead all ingredients into a smooth dough and put in the fridge for 1 hour (in a plastic wrap).
Roll dough out to a thickness of 5mm / 0.2inch , cut cookies and place them on a baking tray covered with baking parchment.
Baking time: 12 min per tray

Then frost the cookies. You can color the frosting with food coloring (for having green trees, yellow stars, etc.)

Enjoy! :-)

Random Facts

Well, I just wanted to give some random facts about me as a mommy and my son D.

My pregnancy was the best pregnancy a woman can wish for. I had no problems, no sickness in the first month, just an uncontrollable circulation. The birth was quite the opposite, it took about 14 hrs from the first medical induction until the arrival of our little boy.
I didn't nurse. I didn't want to but I tried it and D didn't want to nurse then and when he was OK with it I had enough... So he got bottles of milk and for me, it was the best decision. I enjoyed that his dad was able to feed him, too which was quite comfortable at night.
We used diapers like Pampers and Huggies from the beginning. I really did think about using cloth diapers but as there was no laundry nearby to clean them. Because I didn't want to wash them...
And I haven't cooked for him yet. He get those baby menus out of glasses and gets some real food now when we are eating.
I did go to a course of baby massage (for D) and belly dancing (for me and my pelvic floor) and enjoyed both veeery much.
For me, it was important to stay at home and be there for my son. I want to see him making his first step and saying "Mama" for the first time and so on.

So that's it for now...
I think something like that will follow somewhen again :-)

Have a nice day out there!

Wide Open

Have you ever noticed that you put your mouth open when feeding your kid? No? Me not, too.
But my husband says I do. Honestly, this must look sooooo dump and when he told me I was kind of embarassed. I was very attentive when I feed D - and hey, he was right.

So now I work on it that I keep my mouth shut when D opens his. This must look quite weird for other people and I'm sure I did open my mouth too when I fed D in a restaurant or whereever. I just asked why he didn't told me this earlier and do you know what his answer was? >>I thought it was cute...<<
How can I be angry with him when getting such a nice answer? Damn it... *gg*

But yesterday D's gotmother and her husband visited us and we ask her hubby to feed D. And guess what? He did open his mouth when D opened his too. And I did say nothing at all. Mean, I know. But I was just very relieved that this happens to other people as well ;-)

I'll keep watching other moms and dads if they open their mouth while feeding their kid... And I bet you'll be more attentive, too, won't you?