Food Glorious Food

There are things that I love about being a mother - namely my two daughters Mikah and Rafaella..I love that Mikah is a little feisty rock'n'roll superstar, I love the laughs that she gives me, I LOVED painting her nails pink last week and although we have hit the terrible two's, I'm kinda savouring every moment of this phase. I love that Rafaella has just really started showing me her sweet personality, I love how she smells (pre vomit. pre poo), I love that when I change her nappy her chubby hands reach up and touch my face and I especially love that everyday she and I discover something new about each other.

But anyone that knows me, would know there are things I definately do not love about being a mother..The first is the never ending story of washing that I just can never seem to get on top of and the next is cooking. Yes I know what other mothers say about it "It's so nice being able to feed and nourish my family with my delicious cooking" and "I love seeing the look on their face when they enjoy my food". Blah blah blah. Maybe its because its so rare that I actually see that look on my family's face.. Let me paint the daily picture for you. I put the food down in front of my toddler and before the bowl is even in front of her she looks at me and says "I no yike it mummy, take it away". How did she know! One down. I then put a bib on miss 6 month old Rafaella and load the spoon up and she even has that look on her face like seriously mum! seriously?!? This crap again! Where do you get these combinations from..would YOU eat pumpkin together with pear!" Two down. My husband then comes home from work and takes one look at the kitchen with dishes piled high in the sink and food scraps covering the walls, he then looks at me and sees how defeated I clearly am and gets stuck into making omelettes. (God Bless him).

And then I came across Baby Bites by Luke Mangan. Enter angels singing from the heavens.

I organised for 8 Bellies and Beyond mothers (and one father - high five to him) to come with me to their kitchen on Dank Street. We walked in to be greeted by lovely Justine who brought us all much needed coffee. We then met with Luke Mangan's head chef, Heath who did an amazing demo of some of the cooking and the babies taste tested as he whipped up amazing recipe after recipe. Well every baby except for mine who slept through the entire thing..she is a sleep consultant's baby after all! 

Who would have thought of using parsely or throwing in chia seeds when cooking for a bub? Other recipes include pearl barley, rosemary powder, paprika, all things that I would have never in my wildest dreams used. I didn't want sleeping Rafaella's go to waste so I tried it...and let me tell you, it's better than the food I dish up any day!

I am definately going to be taking more mothers to the ah-mazing kitchen so feel free to contact me and tell me if you'd like to join in. I am also going to be keeping a very close eye on the Baby Bites by Luke Mangan range..I think it's going to make one less job for me to do. 

Now if I could just find someone to do the washing...

Sweet Dreams, 

BEC

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