Comments on: Hungry Monkey, Matthew Amster-Burton http://www.sparveys.com/2009/08/26/hungry-monkey-matthew-amster-burton/ instant family: just add twins Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:12:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Bellani Kelly http://www.sparveys.com/2009/08/26/hungry-monkey-matthew-amster-burton/comment-page-1/#comment-803 Bellani Kelly Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:40:03 +0000 http://www.sparveys.com/?p=1300#comment-803 I'm glad you enjoyed your reading. I'm not sure how you really fit it in to your life, but I'm thankful for the review! Now's let's see you and these standing, toddling ones soon. Kelly I’m glad you enjoyed your reading. I’m not sure how you really fit it in to your life, but I’m thankful for the review!

Now’s let’s see you and these standing, toddling ones soon.

Kelly

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]]> By: Melissa http://www.sparveys.com/2009/08/26/hungry-monkey-matthew-amster-burton/comment-page-1/#comment-791 Melissa Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:20:24 +0000 http://www.sparveys.com/?p=1300#comment-791 Eli *loved* this book! I got it for him for Father's Day. Our Iris and Charlotte were pretty adventuresome as babies .... like Iris eating candied ginger at 2 years-old and Charlotte ripping the head off a salted prawn and eating it at dim sum one afternoon. Now they're a little more picky, at 5 and 7, but they eat a very healthy, varied diet. Eli couldn't put the book down and the meatball recipe (minus the cinnamon) has been a staple at our house ever since. We love the kids' book Bee-Bim Bop -- a picture book about the Korean dish that has a delicious recipe in the back. Eli *loved* this book! I got it for him for Father’s Day. Our Iris and Charlotte were pretty adventuresome as babies …. like Iris eating candied ginger at 2 years-old and Charlotte ripping the head off a salted prawn and eating it at dim sum one afternoon. Now they’re a little more picky, at 5 and 7, but they eat a very healthy, varied diet. Eli couldn’t put the book down and the meatball recipe (minus the cinnamon) has been a staple at our house ever since. We love the kids’ book Bee-Bim Bop — a picture book about the Korean dish that has a delicious recipe in the back.

]]> By: Julia http://www.sparveys.com/2009/08/26/hungry-monkey-matthew-amster-burton/comment-page-1/#comment-787 Julia Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:02:56 +0000 http://www.sparveys.com/?p=1300#comment-787 GREAT post, Matt! I'm grateful to you guys for sending us Hungry Monkey (I finished it a long time ago, and Jeff is halfway through now), and I credit Amster-Burton with helping me loosen up enormously about feeding the babies. I look back now and can't believe I ever felt the need to cut the blueberries into fourths. I, too, am intrigued by his recipes -- I tried out the Thai chicken salad, and it was quite tasty. And I too often hear his voice in my head, egging me on in the kitchen. Of course, I am also highly pleased to have been right about the Karmel book. I do have a new cookbook to recommend to you -- it's called The Toddler Cafe, and while the recipes all have nauseatingly cute titles (I just finished making the Bada Bing Bada Bean soup), it's working well for us so far, a nice bridge between the purees and when I can just hand Ben and Elly a sandwich and tell them to have at it. Especially of note: vegetable pancakes! Seriously, since we stopped the purees I'm having a harder time getting them to eat green vegetables, but pea pancakes (referred to in the Toddler Cafe as 'lily pod pancakes') are a hit, and I'm thinking I'll modify the recipe and try them with spinach soon. And thanks, too, for writing about your disappointment when the babies refuse to eat something you've lovingly whipped up for them -- this happened to me just last night, and Jeff, sweet though he is, could not quite understand why I was so dejected. It just felt like a very personal rejection, though I knew, really, it was anything but. A side note: let us hope all these endeavors in the kitchen will save us from this: http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/babysquared/archive/2009/08/26/welcome-to-chez-toddler.aspx oh, and ps, we have a fancy food mill but (true to form) I cannot figure out how to use it. Perhaps you can demo via Skype? Though it may not be necessary in our case, I don't think Elly and Ben's gag reflexes are as sensitive as Julian's -- they can eat whole chunks of, say, chicken-apple-sausage meatball, without too much of a problem. GREAT post, Matt! I’m grateful to you guys for sending us Hungry Monkey (I finished it a long time ago, and Jeff is halfway through now), and I credit Amster-Burton with helping me loosen up enormously about feeding the babies. I look back now and can’t believe I ever felt the need to cut the blueberries into fourths. I, too, am intrigued by his recipes — I tried out the Thai chicken salad, and it was quite tasty. And I too often hear his voice in my head, egging me on in the kitchen. Of course, I am also highly pleased to have been right about the Karmel book. I do have a new cookbook to recommend to you — it’s called The Toddler Cafe, and while the recipes all have nauseatingly cute titles (I just finished making the Bada Bing Bada Bean soup), it’s working well for us so far, a nice bridge between the purees and when I can just hand Ben and Elly a sandwich and tell them to have at it. Especially of note: vegetable pancakes! Seriously, since we stopped the purees I’m having a harder time getting them to eat green vegetables, but pea pancakes (referred to in the Toddler Cafe as ‘lily pod pancakes’) are a hit, and I’m thinking I’ll modify the recipe and try them with spinach soon. And thanks, too, for writing about your disappointment when the babies refuse to eat something you’ve lovingly whipped up for them — this happened to me just last night, and Jeff, sweet though he is, could not quite understand why I was so dejected. It just felt like a very personal rejection, though I knew, really, it was anything but. A side note: let us hope all these endeavors in the kitchen will save us from this: http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/babysquared/archive/2009/08/26/welcome-to-chez-toddler.aspx
oh, and ps, we have a fancy food mill but (true to form) I cannot figure out how to use it. Perhaps you can demo via Skype? Though it may not be necessary in our case, I don’t think Elly and Ben’s gag reflexes are as sensitive as Julian’s — they can eat whole chunks of, say, chicken-apple-sausage meatball, without too much of a problem.

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