Healthy babyfood recipe - Ragi Soup

We have started Ahan on a healthy homemade recipe of Ragi soup in addition to boiled apples and ripe bananas. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:
Ragi flour
Water/ milk

Procedure:
1. Sieve ragi flour through a muslin cloth. You can tie a muslin cloth to a container (not too tightly) and pour the powder on it little by little. Collect the powder in the container that has passed through the cloth. The powder that remains on the cloth needs to be discarded. You may use it for adults, but it shouldn't be used for babies.
2. Take a teaspoonful of this powder in a glass, and add a little water to make a paste without lumps. Then add 3/4 glass of water or milk and make a thin solution.
3. Heat this solution on low fire. Bring it to a boil. Keep stirring. As you keep boiling and stirring, the colour of the solution will change slightly indicating that it is done. You can continue to boil till the desired consistency is reached.

Feed the baby this soup when it is lukewarm. Initially you can begin with a thin solution and slowly increase the thickness of the soup as the baby grows up and gets used to it.

Ahan comes home!

I brought Geeta and Ahan home today from my in-laws at Bangalore. Atti and Vishu (my mother in law and brother in law) also accompanied us. We reached early morning at 4:40am and Ashwin came to receive us at the station with the new car. The journey to Hyderabad was pleasant, especially so for me since it was the first time in the last few months that I was not traveling alone! Plus this was also the first time that I was traveling with Ahan!

We visited the Ganesh Temple on our way home. Ahan entered the house after the traditional "aarti". Geeta's "oti bharane" then followed. Baba will be home this evening from tour and we are all eagerly awaiting him. He called and we spoke this morning and I could make out he is just counting minutes. We missed Aai today. She would have been so happy to receive Ahan home. Anyway, I am sure she is overlooking all this and making it happen.

Now that Geeta and Ahan are home, time spent at home will be all the more special. There will be reason to come home as early as possible and weekends would be awaited that much more. I am looking forward to spending time with MY family! :)