Easy Gourmet Baby Food: 150 Recipes for Homemade Goodness

This book is handy, even for adults! 1) Almost every child's recipe has a way to adapt it to make it more interesting for adults. The pureed broccoli mixed with parmesan cheese over pasta is great. 2) Every recipe has an interesting nutrition section as well as a complete breakdown of all the nutritional facts. I never thought I'd find myself reading about vitamin B12, folic acid, fiber, different layer of grain, etc. 3) Chef Jordan has a preparation tip for every recipe. Try roasting yams with the skin to develop the sugars, etc. 4) All the recipes are manageable. Meaning they don't require 30 different ingredients and 30 steps. They make use of standard basics you'd have in your pantry as well as encouraging you to run to the store to buy the one or two things you don't have. I go back and back to this cookbook for our son as well as our own meals!

I bought this book for my sister, who wants to make her own baby food. I compared it to the other baby cookbooks on the market and this one grabbed me for a few reasons: it has a nice balance of clear, concise basic information and beautiful, easy to prepare fresh recipes. I particularly like the lists of pesticide absorption in produce and a section on food prep safety that I think is vitally important for a beginner cook, especially one cooking for an infant. I love the use of unconventional food pairings for variety and the inclusion of healthy grains/seeds like quinoa and millet. If I had this book when my kids were babies I could have been feeding them lovely dishes like quinoa-banana puree and cabbage, fennel, apple puree. Sigh...at least my niece will be well fed! Before I give it to my sister, I might have to steal the recipes for the chocolate banana sandwiches and the white bean and fennel puree.

Book was well put together. All the nutritional information and tips are listed with each recipe page so you do not have to page through to figure anything out.

I have read and used many babyfood cookbooks and cookbooks that claim to cook for the whole family - baby included. Most recipes have a suggestion at the bottom of how to turn the baby food into an adult food. The one's I tried were a stretch! The baby food itself though is tasty. They use a wide variety of easily found ingredients including fresh herbs. I liked the comments by the chef and by a nutritionist for each recipe. Most of the purees turned out too watery when I followed the recipe quantity so I adapted accordingly. All in all, a good book to have in addition to another.