My Puree-ing Journey - Tacos

Well this was a great way to feel good about making tacos! They still are not the healthiest meal but this certainly upped the nutritional value of this meal.

Generally for tacos I use the package, brown my meat, add the powder with water.

This time, I brown the meat, used the package but instead of water I used crushed tomato sauce and my carrot puree. It made the meat nice and thick - perfect for taco filling. I also added to my toppings, using red peppers. Next I'll add avocado.

So far I have been using a lot of my purees to feed Katie (9 mos old). But I will get back to trying out more recipes.

Cake Decorating ~ My First Cake

My mom and I are taking a cake decorating class at Michael's. The course is made up of 4 ~ 2 hour classes.

The reason I decided to take the class is that since I have a child with a severe allergy I figured it would be safest to make my own cakes. I actually think I'll really enjoy it. It'll be nice for my children to remember that I made all of their birthday cakes.

My first cake (see photo) was created today during our second class. I can now understand why cakes are so expensive to purchase. The supplies to make them are not cheap and it does take a bit of time to get it just right. For instance this cake (which is not just right in all places:) took me a total of 2 hours. If I were to make it again I could probably shave of a bit of time but it would still take a while.

I will continue to post my masterpieces as they are created.