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It’s been a while since I’ve thrown a vlog down for you .. so here’s one live from my kitchen!

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Annabel Karmel’s official website has some test recipes for you to check out. Then head on over and pick up her books at Amazon.

This is the recipe for Bolognese Sauce I use for Z’s spaghetti.

1 tbsp vegetable oil
50g finely chopped onion
20g chopped celery
1 small clove garlic, crushed
1 medium carrot (approx 85g), peeled and grated
100 g lean minced beef
150 ml Passata
100 ml unsalted stock or boiling water
1/4 tsp fresh thyme leaves or a pinch of dried thyme
a pinch of sugar
3 tbsp Annabel Karmel’s Mini Pasta Shells

Method:
Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the onion and celery over a low heat for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until softened. Add the garlic and cook for one minute. Add the grated carrot and sauté for 4 minutes. In a separate pan, dry fry the minced beef until browned, stirring occasionally. Add to the onion and carrot. Pour over the tomato and basil sauce, boiling water or stock and add the thyme and pinch of sugar. Cover and cook over a low heat for about 12 minutes. Remove from the pan and pulse for a second or two in a blender to make a smoother texture.

Meanwhile, cook the shell pasta according to the packet instructions. Drain and mix with the Bolognese sauce.

Information
Suitable for freezing
From 9 months
MAKES 3 PORTIONS [source]

I don’t use the pasta shells. I make a batch of the sauce and then sprinkle in La Molisana’s Spinagarda pasta. It’s shaped like grains of rice and is the perfect length for Z. I don’t actually cook the pasta, I just toss it in when the sauce is done and it soaks up the extra water and cooks itself.

I use Bob’s Red Mill Steel Cut Oats for his oatmeal. Find them in the health section of your grocery.

Make the oatmeal as per the package. In a saucepan sautee the diced apples and pears in 1 1/2c of water. I toss in a pat of butter and a cinnamon stick too. Just sautee and boil the apples and pears until they break down like mashed potatos. Add extra water if you need to.

When they’re done, mash the apples up and mix with the oatmeal. Put in ice cube trays and freeze.

We give Z two or three cubes of oatmeal for breakfast each day mixed with a piece of fresh banana, or some mango or blueberries. It’s the perfect breakfast!

It’s so easy to make your own baby food. Try it!

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Back to video blogging today with the return of the 120.

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I hate Canadian Idol.

Our singers aren’t as good. Our judges aren’t as good. Our set isn’t as good. Our host isn’t as good.

CI runs in the summer, after 5 months of AI, and, frankly, I am spent on the karaoke kids by that time and need a break. A yodelling lobster fisher’s daughter, or beat boxing hay bailer just doesnt have any impact on me, I can’t watch a second of the show.

That said…

The gang over at Canadian Idol are doing something they deserve a pat on the back for. In 2008, why do we need to stand in line and trudge to major centers to audition? There’s the internets, and streaming audio and video - why can’t we use that??

Well, Teresa Sokyrka wannabes, you can.

No One Left Behind: Canadian Idol Announces Innovative Last Chance Audition Stop on the 2008 Tour

The day after Canadian Idol’s 2008 cross-country audition tour wrapped up in Toronto, CTV announced that the search for Canada’s next Idol is heading into cyberspace, allowing singers in any part of the country with access to a computer to audition for this year’s competition. It’s only the second time in the history of the Idol franchise that competitors have had the opportunity to audition online, marking yet another North American first for Canadian Idol.

By extending the breadth of the national search, producers are now offering every eligible Canadian the opportunity for exposure and a chance to start a professional music career, no matter where they live. Beginning today and lasting until Friday, April 25 at 5 p.m. ET, online Idol competitors simply need to upload video tryouts to the Canadian Idol website

Oooooh .. did they say cyberspace?? I take all that back, they’re still a bunch of losers.

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Jen and I fell in love with Rob and Big when trapped inside our hotel room in Cuba. We were pregnant, not drinking and not smoking, so, there we were in Cuba, watching MTV. It was a Rob and Big Marathon, we saw about 10 episodes in a row. We were hooked.

To understand what we did today, you need to watch what Rob and Big did earlier this season.

So, imagine our surprise while trucking along the A13 in Normandy today when Enrique blasts on Radio NRJ! I grab the camera, flip on the video and the whole family breaks it down Rob and Big style.

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