Babyfood, Apple - the first time!

Now that my little girl is 4 months old I started thinking about how I´m going to handle things when it comes to food. When I was looking around on coffeeandvanilla.com I came across these tips Margot give on her blog and I agree with her for 100%.

These are her tips:

*Feed them with fruit and veg before they know they don’t like it, before they can walk or talk.
*Don’t give up, with older children it can take few years, it is hard to change old bad habits.
*Engage little ones in your shopping and cooking, let them choose and help to prepare.
*Reduce ready foods and sweets but let them have it from time to time.
*If you cook and eat healthy yourself, your children will follow you.
*The sooner you start introduce your child to all kind of healthy foods the better, hopefully later
those childhood experiences will change into healthy eating habits and love for
good food

The only thing I'd like to add is having family dinners, it gives them an example and you have an excuse to be together.
I hate eating alone! And it happens to me alot do to irregular working hours.

but, I hope I can live up too these tips and avoid something like this:

I feel bad for those children, I don't have to tell you how bad this is in so many ways!

Anyway,I think it´s time to introduce her to some real food now. I know that she doesn´t "need" it yet and opinions might be different on this subject, but I would like to allready let her taste some things. I've been reading on the Internet and according to different sources it's best to give your baby one kind of food for about 2 weeks to get used to the taste (they might not like it at first) and if they turn out to be allergic you know immediately to what. I´ve also been told is best to feed your baby pure ingredients first before start mixing them up, so they will know what the fruits, vegetables etc taste like individually. I wanted to start out with apples, so I peeled and cut an apple then cooked it with about a tablespoon of water and just stirred and mashed it.

She didn't really give a struggle ore spite it out, but she looked grossed out though! haha she did eat some bits eventually so I'm proud. How do you think I'm handling this? What did you do different? As a first time mom with NO experience (no baby's in my family) I would appreciate any advice!

Greek Apple Pie

Original recipe from Sonja Stampoulidou

I found this recipe in a magazine I thought it just looked really different from the ordinary apple pie that I know. The article was about 3 types of apple pies, a Dutch one, a French one and a Greek one which I chose to make because of it looks. (I'm so shallow!)

I'm very sorry I didn't make a better picture so you can see how beautiful it really is but I was in kind of a hurry at the last moment.

I hope next time I will be able to spend more time on it and make a better afford.

Anyway, here is the recipe and I hope someone will try it out and let me know what he/she thinks.

It takes about 2 hours totally to make this recipe (including 70 minutes baking time)

You'll need:

-3 Apples (I recommend "golden delicious" because of it's sweet taste)

-1 tbs of cinnamon (ore more if you like ;) )

-130 grams of sugar

-3 table spoons of honey

-150 grams of walnuts (you can chop them in to big pieces if you want)

-Grated lemon zest of one lemon

-100 grams of butter + some more for buttering the spring form

-3 eggs

-125 grams of flower

-1 tsp of baking powder

- frozen filo pastry about 10 sheets
-icing sugar
-baking paper

-tin foil
-salt

OK let's start!!!

1. Cut the apples like in the picture
2. put them in a bowl together with the Cinnamon, 30 grams of sugar, honey and the walnuts
3. pre-heat the oven at 160 degrees.
4. mix the butter, lemon zest, 100 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt, 2 eggs, the flower, and the baking powder using a mixer (I did it by hand because I don't have one!!!)
5. Cover the bottem of the spring form with the baking paper. An easy way to do that is like I did in the picture (I wasn't really precise but I don't think that's necessary anyway)
6. Beat the egg





7. Put the first sheet of pastry in on top of the baking paper and put some of the egg over it with a brush, then put an other sheet over it so it forms a star. and also cover with the a bit of egg.
8. cut all the sheets of pastry you got left over in 3 strokes and then one time horizontally
9. cover the side of the spring form with the strokes and go higher each layer (I did 3 layers)
10. put in the dough and on top of that the apples
11. fold the pastry to the inside and leave a big hole in the middle.

12. Bake the pie for about 70 minutes in the oven. If you think the browning process is going to fast, put some tinfoil over it
13. Finish it of with some icing sugar!!


Hope you've enjoyed it and any comments are welcome!
Especially about the language, I'd love to improve.

Thank you very much!