Corned Beef & Cabbage Soup

Usually I make corned beef and cabbage in my crock pot every year for St. Patrick's Day, but this year I thought I'd try soup.

Recipe
Corned Beef & Cabbage Soup

Comments
 - The leeks caused this soup to be fairly sweet, so next time I might use one leek and one small onion instead of two leeks
 - I bought a ~2 lb corned beef brisket and cut off all of the visible fat before adding it to the soup
 - I didn't have any parsley on hand so I skipped it

Rating
3.5/5

WW PointsPlus
7

Homemade Baby Food (Part 2)

Anna is almost done with her Stage 1 foods and has honestly liked almost everything she has tried! Green beans and pumpkin were a challenge but I'll give them another try in a week or two.  She is eating solids twice a day, so she gets her "new" food at one meal and then I'm trying to do "old" food combinations at the other meal.  By "old" food I mean foods she has already tried.  I'm trying to do as many veggie+veggie and fruit+fruit combos as I can so that she doesn't get used to having a sweet fruit with her vegetables.  I've mixed avocado with both fruits and vegetables.

With the fruits I have found that a cocktail muddler (like this) is helpful when mashing avocados, bananas, etc.

Fruits
Apples (did not freeze, Target brand adult unsweetened applesauce thinned slightly with breastmilk)
Avocados (did not freeze, mashed with a bit of breastmilk)
Bananas (did not freeze, mashed with a bit of breastmilk)
Mango (made & froze, pureed in blender with some water)
Peaches (made & froze, bought frozen peach slices, thawed and pureed in blender with some water)
Pears (made & froze)
Plums (made & froze)
Pumpkin (did not freeze, used canned pumpkin)

Vegetables
Beets
Cauliflower
Summer Squash/Zucchini

Orecchiette, Cauliflower, Arugala & Proscuitto

I found this recipe on Pinterest recently and made it for dinner last night.  Mike and I both really liked it, despite the fact that I had to make quite a few adjustments.

Recipe
Orecchiette, Cauliflower & Proscuitto

Comments
 - Here are my swaps:
       Arugala --> Fresh baby spinach
       Proscuitto --> Thinly sliced deli ham
       Grape tomatoes --> Whole tomato, cut into pieces about the size of grape tomatoes
       Fresh sage --> Dried sage (about 1/2 tsp)
       Orecchiette --> 8 oz Dreamfield's rotini pasta
 - For the most part I think my swaps were fine but I think you'd definitely get a different flavor by using arugala and proscuitto instead of baby spinach and ham
 - Make sure to save some of the pasta water as the recipe says - I ended up using about 1/4 to 1/3 C

Rating
4/5

WW PointsPlus
6 (makes 4 servings)