{"id":8235,"date":"2010-03-24T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=8235"},"modified":"2010-09-19T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T06:30:48","slug":"yummy-baby-foods-cottage-pie-babys-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/03\/24\/yummy-baby-foods-cottage-pie-babys-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Baby Foods: Cottage Pie (Baby\u2019s version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to called it Shepherd&#8217;s Pie but read somewhere on the Internet that the dish uses lamb. Makes sense. Since beef is used here, it should be called Cottage Pie. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>Eh, this recipe is named thus as it uses similar ingredients and produces similar taste. It may sound like a lot of prep work but trust me, it is QED (quite easily done). So here&#8217;s my version:<\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients (serves 1 chinese bowl)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Potato (1 small or medium)<\/li>\n<li>Carrot (1\/2 of a small stick)<\/li>\n<li>Garden\/sweet peas (2-3 tbsps)<\/li>\n<li>Cherry tomato (1, sliced) &#8211; I bought the Sakura brand as no pesticides were used on their tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>Cauliflower (1 small floret)<\/li>\n<li>Minced beef (1 heaped tbsp)<\/li>\n<li>Laughing Cow&#8217;s plain cheese cube (1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Method<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Peel the carrot and potato and then slice them thinly. Slice cherry tomato and cauliflower.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly spread out the carrot, potato, tomato, cauliflower and peas on a plate.<\/li>\n<li>Steam the vegetables for 15 minutes. (Do not overcook the potato as it can become gummy.) Peas can get overcooked easily and hence I usually use other veggies to cover them.<\/li>\n<li>After 15 minutes, take out the vegetables and replace with minced beef and *steam for 2-3 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>While the beef is being steamed, puree the vegetables.<\/li>\n<li>After about 2-3 minutes, take out the beef. Mash the beef finely by pressing down with a fork.<\/li>\n<li>Mix the vegetable puree, cheese cube and mashed beef thoroughly with a spoon or fork. Add some formula milk \/ fresh milk to thin out the mixture if necessary. Stir the mixture well.<\/li>\n<li>Place the entire bowl in a hot water bath (i.e. a bowl of very hot water) to heat up the mixture while getting the baby ready for the meal.<\/li>\n<li>Stir the mixture well to distribute the heat evenly before serving. Enjoy the cottage pie! :D<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  size-medium wp-image-8354\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"cottage pie (before mixing) for blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cottage-pie-before-mixing-for-blog-300x243.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cottage-pie-before-mixing-for-blog-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cottage-pie-before-mixing-for-blog.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8353\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"cottage pie for blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cottage-pie-for-blog-300x223.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note: The recipe could be used to make fish pie too. I usually replace beef with salmon to make fish pie :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to called it Shepherd&#8217;s Pie but read somewhere on the Internet that the dish uses lamb. Makes sense. Since beef is used here, it should be called Cottage Pie. Oh well. Eh, this recipe is named thus as<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/03\/24\/yummy-baby-foods-cottage-pie-babys-version\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Yummy Baby Foods: Cottage Pie (Baby\u2019s version)<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-baby-recipes","category-children-blues","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-479-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235","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=8235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}