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On canapés

on January 28, 2012

“So do you want to come and help feed her?” DoctorSister says to me, standing up and carrying EarlyNiece into the kitchen. EarlyNiece’s her chubby little legs kicking away as she walks.

“Ooh, yes, quickly,” I say, following. I am at DoctorSister’s briefly, after a day at work and before a work night out in Nottingham, to apply lipstick, take my tights off and change into a dress. “What is she having?”

DoctorSister settles EarlyNiece into her high chair and gets a small pot of orange gloop out of the fridge. “Sweet potato and swede purée.”

“Yum,” I say, looking at it.

DoctorSister hands me a blue plastic spoon, which EarlyNiece reaches out and grabs. “Aahh!” I say.

“So you just load some onto the front of the spoon and when she opens her mouth tilt it and try to empty it into her mouth using her gums,” DoctorSister says, hovering by my elbow as I scoop up a spoonful.

“This is quite technical,” I say, as I spoon it into EarlyNiece’s mouth. The puree ends up all over her chin, bib, neck and hands. And to be fair, this would happen to me, too, if I was eating with a spoon the size of my open mouth.

“It smells lovely though,” I say, putting the spoon down and dipping my finger into the gloop and licking it. “My God,” I say. “This is lovely. It’s so sweet, so much nicer than normal sweet potatoes. I might start puréeing!”

DoctorSister smiles broadly as I babble. “It has my breast milk in it, too,” she says.

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5 Responses to “On canapés”

  1. Jen says:

    Reminds me of the Ross/Joey breast milk moment from Friends! ; )

  2. Aaaaaaannnnnnddd…..SCENE.

  3. Good Cooking says:

    The truth of it is that balanced cooking techniques need to satisfy just THREE basic and simple requirements the food you eat should not have extra amount of fat and sea salt i.e. should not be full of calories, it should retain their nutrients i.e. it shouldn\’t be empty calories and more importantly, it should taste good.
    Great Read, Terrific to find another \’foodie\’

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