{"id":11089,"date":"2010-09-01T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T23:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=11089"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:52:35","slug":"yummy-toddler-foods-minced-beef-in-tomato-sauce-with-steamed-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/09\/01\/yummy-toddler-foods-minced-beef-in-tomato-sauce-with-steamed-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Toddler Foods: Minced Beef in Tomato Sauce with Steamed Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah should be eating lumpy foods now as 1) she has more teeth and 2) chewing helps (indirectly) in speech.<\/p>\n<p>Just the other day, I made cream of mushroom soup for our dinner and used some of the soup to mix with steamed rice for her too. I&#8217;m glad she took to the taste of mushrooms positively as both Yang and I love mushrooms. :)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, dinner tonight. I heated up 100 ml of frozen, homemade tomato sauce and added minced beef. At the same time, I had a small bowl of rice steaming in another pot. The whole process of preparation and cooking took no more than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Frozen-Tomato-Sauce-in-Small-Plastic-Tubs-upload.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11291\" title=\"Frozen Tomato Sauce in Small Plastic Tubs (upload)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Frozen-Tomato-Sauce-in-Small-Plastic-Tubs-upload.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Frozen-Tomato-Sauce-in-Small-Plastic-Tubs-upload.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Frozen-Tomato-Sauce-in-Small-Plastic-Tubs-upload-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Beef-in-Tomato-Sauce-Cooking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BeefinTomatoSauceCooking.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Beef-in-Tomato-Sauce-Cooking\" width=\"351\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the minced beef tomato sauce was ready, it was poured over the steamed rice (I added more water to get very moist rice). Just before feeding Hannah, the rice is mixed thoroughly with the sauce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Beef-in-Tomato-Sauce-over-Steamed-Rice-upload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BeefinTomatoSauceoverSteamedRiceupload.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Beef-in-Tomato-Sauce-over-Steamed-Rice-upload\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She enjoyed it :) Yay.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional note: I tried adding 2 tbsps of finely shredded carrot to the sauce at the start of heating it and the whole dish becomes even more flavourful with a slight crunchiness! :)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah should be eating lumpy foods now as 1) she has more teeth and 2) chewing helps (indirectly) in speech. Just the other day, I made cream of mushroom soup for our dinner and used some of the soup to<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/09\/01\/yummy-toddler-foods-minced-beef-in-tomato-sauce-with-steamed-rice\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Yummy Toddler Foods: Minced Beef in Tomato Sauce with Steamed Rice<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,479,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-baby-recipes","category-children-blues","category-recipes","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-479-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}