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<\/p>\nOne of the challenges I faced when Hannah started on solid food was time management. Life began to feel quite hurried at home when cooking was part of the daily routine. Gosh, and more washing too!<\/p>\n
Since I didn’t start Hannah on commercial baby cereal but home-made white rice porridge, a lot of time was spent in trying to cook porridge until it was soft enough for our ‘bo geh’ (toothless) baby. The thing about cooking porridge over stove fire is that one must constantly stir the porridge to prevent it from getting stuck to the pot base. I ground the rice grains to speed up the rate of cooking but I still had to spend 45 minutes to an hour by the stove to stir the porridge! This was unacceptable to me. And says who that ‘the more you stir, the more love you put into cooking the porridge’?!!! Argh! Thank God that the slow cooker came to my rescue. No more stirring was required. Just put the rice grains and water into the slow cooker and set the dial to ‘high’ or ‘auto’ to cook for an hour. And voila, you get steaming soft porridge minus all the fuss.<\/p>\n
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I wish I had discovered the usefulness of the slow cooker sooner. It’s okay, like what my ang mo friend had quipped about his recent flight disruption, "live and learn". Yup yup :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the challenges I faced when Hannah started on solid food was time management. Life began to feel quite hurried at home when cooking was part of the daily routine. Gosh, and more washing too! Since I didn’t start<\/p>\n