When a child don't eat brown rice

My son is a food picker, I have to crack my brain everyday to cook his meal and have to mix and match varieties so he will not get sick. He used to only eats broccoli, cauliflower, seaweed, toufu and grains. Now he is better as he gets older, more sensible and can accept more food. At least he takes carrots, cai xin, ect... For mothers out there, no worry if he don't eat at young age, keep trying and he will eat them one day. Children grows very fast and they changes very fast, even with food, speech, actions ect. It is fulfilling to see them grow and developed new skill and he gives me surprises all the time and it delighted me (that is my rewards) :)    I would suggest to create a Happy environment all the time at home, including during his mealtime, I know it is hard but have to try because when they are happy, their body also absorb nutritious better. Children learn from caregiver and parents, if they are grow up in a caring and loving environment, they will become a Happy adult in the future.

My son does not eat Brown Rice, he will spit it out as it is rough, no matter how I cook it, despite it is soft porridge. Therefore I come out with soft multi grains rice, although he is not eating brown rice but at least something more nutritious. Here I share with you my recipes, feel free to leave any comments.

Grains
Millet  - 30%
Quinoa  - 30%
Red Lentil  - 20%
white rice  - 20%

Mix all the grains together and wash and cook in rice cooker.

Dish
Broccoli
Carrot
Tou Boa

Add a little water in pot and boil it. When it is boiled, add in all the ingredients and cook until cooked then off the fire and add in black bean soya sauce and sesame oil and mix it up.

I like tou boa because the ingredient only states water and soya beans. Sometimes I marinate with black soya bean sauce and pan fried it and it looks like chicken slices.

Thereafter put them together as shown in above picture and sprinkle raw wakame flakes and sesame seed on the rice and serve.

Wakame Flake - I bought the dried wakame in a package and grind them into powder for easy consumption.

Sesame seed is for Calcium, do you know that the calcium in sesame seed is more than milk?

Simple little meal from my humble little kitchen.............

Favourite Salad Part 2 - Salad from the SEA

Beside the earlier version of Salad, I still have another favourite salad of mine, SALAD from the SEA!

This recipe is very easy and simple and REFRESHING! I got this idea from a friend, Angie when she opened house for playgroup years ago. 

The ingredients are:

Wakame - soaked for 30mins

Coral Algea - soaked for 3 hours

Cucumber - cubes or stripes

Tomato - cubed

I simply love Coral Algea, it is gives you the crunch and biting sensation. And we can get B12 from Seaweed.

Seasoning

Lemon Juice 

Sesame Oil

Liquid Amino

Just mix them up together and served! Sprinkle some Sesame Seed for CALCIUM.

Favourite Salad at the moment

I guess after some time of making food from recipes and trying out different type of salads for your meals, you will have one and only salad that you would love to eat it for days or even weeks and months without getting sick. Today I would like to share with you my favourite salad which I have been eating for a period of time and still my favourite. I am now cutting down time in making food and use the time to do other things I like. This salad need no sauce and still taste good to me. It helps me to get back on track after going down hill into eating junk food. Here it goes...

Ingredients : Raw vegetables we have - chopped lettuce finely

                                                            cut up tomato into small cubes

                                                            cut up turnip into small cubes

                                                            cut up cucumber into small pieces

                                                            soaked raisin

Talking about raisin, Nature Glory's raisin is big and juicy, thanks to Wan Yin's recommendation. If you eat it like this, it is chewy, if you soaked it, it is crunchy, yummy! Should try if you have the time to visit Nature's Glory at Tiong Bahru area

Back to Ingredients : add cubes of avocado

                                drizzle some lemon juice - amount depends on your taste to sourness

                                sprinkle some sea salt

Mix them up and ENJOY!

I like this combi, hope you like it too.

Shake it Up, Gelato!

Hey guys, I am back again! Not going to focus 100% into raw making but into Sharing on what I am cooking or making lately. My son started schooling in PCF for 5 months as of now and have outing every month organised by school. The last trip we went to ART OF SCOOP, gelato making, Mmmmmm... Sounds yummy and my son and his classmates all looking forward to this trip. I went along too as this is one of the conditions. This is trip is very interesting and we have learnt to make Gelato ourselves at home. I had shared previously on making popicle at home as in the link : http://rawhealthyfood.blogspot.sg/2010/07/maitris-favourite-ice-cream-and-cookie.html

This round will be another kind of ice cream, they called it Gelato which is from Itali, no eggs, only milk, sugar and vanilla essence. We actually get to make the Gelato in the workshop and it taste great! I started making it at home with Organic Rice Milk, Organic Raw Sugar and Organic Vanilla Extract as shown below:

This is how it goes......

What you need is a big size zip lock bag, a smaller size zip lock bag, masking tape, salt, ice as shown below:

Next pour 300ml rice milk in a cup, add in 1~2 tablespoon of raw sugar (depend on your liking on sweetness), add in 1~2 teaspoon of vanilla essence (taste it before you add more)

Stirred up the mixture until no clicking sound from the sugar, then pour it into the smaller zip lock bag and add masking tape as shown below:

Also add in the ice until half of the bag is filled and add in 1 1/2 pack of salt into the big zip lock bag as shown below:

The final step is to place the small zip lock bag into the big zip lock bag and add masking tape as shown below :

Be sure to place a towel below the bag for ease of cleaning later....

At last the FUN is here, shake it up, this way and that way, up and down, left and right. If your hand are cold slide it on the towel on the floor or tray.

Don't forget to use a glove to prevent your hands from FREEZING.... BRrrrr

Thanks Bro, your hand glove comes in handy.

...........  After 5~10mins......  Your Gelato is DONE! Depends on your shaking speed and volume, the freezing time is different. Scoop it up and ENJOY!

My son likes chocolate flavour, I add 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder to the mixture for the taste.

This is a fun way to keep the kids busy indoor and they get to enjoy their hardship later. 

One point is that there will be waste on the plastic bags and needs lots of ice and salt. 

So in the end I bought a Gelato maker by Kenwood..... Have yet to tried out, will update later on the efficiency of this machine ya

To be continue............