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Saturday 23 July 2016

MPASI Marcella 6 Bulan

Marcella is 6 months old, and her doctor gave schedule for solid food.

Excited...??
I was more to worry than excited.
Jadi ceritanya lebih ke bingung ketimbang excited.

Begitu banyak artikel dan menu tentang MPASI di internet. Tetapi most of them kurang berinti. Isinya melulu ke resep tim ini-tim itu, nggak ada alasan mengapa memilih ini dan berapa porsinya.

Keluarga (ibu, adik perempuan) juga memberi begitu banyak masukan tentang MPASI.

Setelah berkonsultasi dan mencoba-coba sendiri trial and error dalam menu makan Marcella. Dalam 10 hari pemberian makan.

Porsi
Most of article menyatakan bahwa porsi sekali makan untuk bayi berumur 6 bulan adalah 1/2 gelas (100ml).

Porsi sekali makan Marcella pada hari 1-4 adalah 1sdt bubur instant + 5 sdt air hangat. 2x sehari (09:00am dan 15:00am) itupun tidak habis. Marcella hanya makan seujung sendok, kemudian memilih ASI. Jangan risau kalau bayi akan kelaparan/kurang kenyang karena keperluan nutrisi masih berfokus pada ASI.

Pada hari ke 6 perut Marcella mulai "melar" dan porsinya meningkat menjadi 20ml bubur dalam sekali makan.


Frekuensi
Beberapa artikel mengatakan bayi makan 2x sehari makanan berat, dan buah pada siang hari.

Marcella makan 4-6 kali sehari dengan porsi kecil.

08:00 Bubur Instant 20ml (2sdt+air)
11:00 Sayuran kukus yang dilembutkan (1sdm) atau 1 keping biskuit milna+air
14:00 Bubur Nasi buatan sendiri (1-2sdm)
16:00 Bubur Instant 20ml (2sdt+air)


Bubur Instant vs Buatan Sendiri
Saya tidak fanatik pada salah satu produk. Ya, saya memakai kedua-duanya dengan alasan.

1. Bubur Instant
Bayi memerlukan zat besi yang sangat tinggi (5x porsi orang dewasa). Bubur beras/buah/sayur buatan sendiri tidak mencukupi keperluan zat besi harian bayi. Bubur instant telah dimodifikasi sehingga mengandung zat besi yang porsinya memenuhi keperluan harian bayi.





2. Bubur Buatan Sendiri Saya memberi bubur buatan sendiri agar bayi terbiasa dengan homemade food / Real food. Sehingga, in the future Marcella bisa makan nasi, sayur, ayam, dll seperti normalnya manusia. Dan tidak bergantung pada instant food.





3. Buah dan Sayur Puree
Marcella juga dikenalkan pada beberapa buah.
- Pisang: Marcella sangat suka, bahkan bisa habis 1 sendok makan dalam sekali suap. Kelemahan: constipation. Bayi tidak mau pup sampai 3 hari, ibunya khawatir..!!  

- Apple: 1/4 apple yang dikupas, dikukud dan dihaluskan adalah makanan yang umum untuk bayi bule. Marcella kurang begitu suka, mungkin karena rasanya yang terlalu manis. 

- Pepaya: Sangat suka, tidak ada keluhan. Bahkan melancarkan sistem pembuangan.

- Jeruk: Sangat suka, tetapi membuat perut mulas. Alhasil, setiap sore akan rewel dan menangis. Sementara Jeruk di hapus dari menu ;)

Feeding Gear
Atau alat-alat untuk menyiapkan dan memberi makan bayi. 

Ada begitu banyak produk untuk membuat, menyimpan, menggiling makanan bayi. 

Marcella tidak memiliki alat khusus untuk membuat makanan bayinya. Kecuali mangkok dan sendok yang disesuaikan dengan mulut bayi.


Bahkan untuk food-on-the-go (makanan yg dibawa bawa ketika jalan/ngemall) Marcella memakai botol dot yang selama ini nggak pernah kepakai.

Untuk memasak/mengukus, saya menggunakan rice cooker aja (males nungguin kompor, hihi) 

Untuk menghaluskan makanan, saya menggunakan blender biasa (kalau rajin),
Kalau malas saya pakai saringan kawat dan sendok aja hihihi.

Semoga infonya bisa membantu mami-mami lain yang baru belajar MPASI untuk buah hatinya ya 😊😊😊

Friday 22 July 2016

Tumis Basah Tauge dan Tauge Kapri

Salah satu menu praktis yang sangat kami sukai. Tumis tauge putih (tauge kacang hijau) dan tauge hijau (tauge kacang kapri).

Rasanya yang segar dan krenyes-krenyes  karena dimasak sebentar saja. Dan serba irit (irit gas, irit bumbu, irit cuci piring) hihihi :D




Bahan:
1 plastik tauge putih
1 genggam tauge hijau
1 batang wortel, kupas, potong korek api

3 bawang merah, iris halus
2 bawang putih, iris halus
5 canai rawit
1 potong ikan asin, goreng sebentar, hancurkan

Gula, garam, kaldu bubuk.

Cara:
Tumis bawang merah, bawang putih, cabai hingga harum.

Masukkan ikan asin, aduk sebentar.
Masukkan tauge.
Aduk cepat dan angkat dari api.


Hidangkan dengan nasi panas dan sambal terasi. 

The Super Simple Monica 5th Birthday

Monica my little niece turn 5 on 27th June. Knowingly that her cousin will come to Indonesia for Hari Raya she willing to hold her birthday celebration for another week.

The family, partly celebrate a very simple birthday for her :)

Our big family seldom make birthday celebration (I am not sure why)
I guess as a parent they think birthday is just wasting time blow candle where they could use the time to "catch bigger fish" or simply said they don't have money, or no time to spend on birthday thing.

Which I totally disagree..!

Birthday celebration is way way important for kid in their first 10 years to step this harsh world. It's a moment to remember. Blow candle and sing a song seems nothing for us as adult, but mean world for them.

For Monica birthday I offer to bake her a cake. I am skill-less, and sucks in baking tho... Lol.

So I skip in gather ingredients and measuring but purchase pre-mix cake powder. It save lot of time and reduce the chance of failure :)



-2 packs or Green classic carrot cake
- 250 gram unsalted butter
- 125 gram icing sugar
- food colour (blue)
- some sprinkle


I always do work at night, the only spare time I have where Marcella already sleep. Same with baking and prepare the icing.

Cake 1 baked in our old style dutch oven. 

Monica crazy about Frozen stuff. I really want to make the cake "smells" like frozen but oh No, i got no skill in decorate either lol.

In a very minimum skills and equipment I decorate the cake in blue icing as background and white (meant to be snowflakes) 


Not that bad :)
I want to laugh at myself too sometimes
For too confident in making birthday cake.


She seems happy with her cake and presents


The cousins 


Everyone wants to blow a candle too



Happy Birthday Sweetheart hopefully I can bake better cake next year


Being a big girl she wants to cut and distribute the cake by herself.


Happy Birthday Monica Putri Wibowo


Tuesday 19 July 2016

Simple Chicken Briyani

Using rice cooker :D
And it turn perfectly yummy 

Briyani (for me) is consider quite expensive dish in Indian restaurant. Long grain Bhasmati rice cooked in lot lot lot of fresh and dry herbs, mix with butter, and chicken/lamb/fish.


There are lot of effort in cooking briyani include cook all the herbs and meat separately before finishing them off.

But I learn how to cook it simple in cheating way (and still delish) :D



Ingredients:

1 cup bhasmati rice
1/2 chicken, cut into 4-6 pcs
Coriander leaves, mint leaves.
1 full table spoon briyani powder

2 tablespoon yoghurt
2 cup water

2 yellow onion slices
4 garlic slices
3 green chili

5 cloves
2 cardamom
1/2 tsp cumin
2 tbs cooking oil

How To:
Heat up oil, add in clove-cardamom-cumin until fragant. Add in chili, onion,garlic. Stir and keep cook until onion soft.

Add in briyani powder, 1/2 cup water, chicken. Bit of salt.
Leave till boil.
Add in yoghurt. Stir well to break the yoghurt lump.
Leave until to reduce the liquid.

Pour the chicken mix, remaining water, rice into rice cooker. Stir evently.
Click on "cook" mode.
Once the cooking process done, fluff the rice to avoid crust in the bottom.

Spread coriander and mint leaves. 



Enjoy Briyani with
- Chutney ( i bought chutney in the jar)
- Dhal (store bought too)
- yoghurt+cucumber+onion






Thursday 7 July 2016

Marcella First Trip To Krabi

We celebrate Papa Jon ahem... 29th birthday
(Yaiyyy.. Still young....)

We got nothing to do in Kuala Lumpur, and we found cheap ticket to Krabi.

We just pack light hand luggage and drove to the airport.


The journey took about an hour and half. 


We arrived in Krabi :)

From airport to hotel took about 30 minutes. Our taxi cost THB 600, other option is by bus/van cost about THB 150/person.



We arrived in the hotel, both kid and dad start testing the comfort level of the bed.
They seems happy :)



We stayed in Apasari Resort in Ao Nang Beach area. Not exactly beach resort, but just nearby. We can walk to the beach.

The hotel quite cheap too, but amazingly super comfortable.

Clean and nice bed, bath tub, toilet, balcony and small swimming pool.


Thailand is paradise of food. If you love veggie (like me) they pamper you with plenty soup and salad.

And I always get excited with street food. So yes, from very first day Mr has to let me roam around collecting plastic bag filled with food.

I got my first meal here, flat noodles seafood and vegetables in corn starch gravy. Quite nice for THB 80 



Fruit is everywhere in Thailand. From street stall, convenient store til massage place. They offer you fresh cutted fruit anytime you want.


I had my huge watermelon almost everyday (and makes me peed all night long)

The 2nd day, we start to wander around. Fron the hotel to Ao Nang Beach took about 5 minutes by tuk-tuk, THB 30/person. We can walk too, but there were construction along the way poor Marcella's stroller and we going to suffer from the dust.



My tropical girl enjoy her chill out moment :)



Beach and iced coffee



Foot massage after that.



And swimming a bit

On the evening we had our dinner out at Wang Sai Seafood Restaurant. Its on the seashore, beautiful sunset view.

Food is very fresh and love those grilled fish. Price? Cheap..



We walked to the restaurant. Quite nice view around




Day 3,
Just another chill out day and enjoy the surrounding.

We didnt go crazy with trip itinerary because we have infant with us.

Travel with baby,
Have tot ake stuff easy. They are very easy to get tired, confused and stress.



Marcella is a big fan of her dad
(I am not sure why) 
She looks really happy when her dad home from work, or she got a chance to cuddling on him.

Dad is the coolest person on earth :)


Happy Girl chill out in hotel room.



Some of the food we enjoy from hotel breakfast buffet.




Waiting our flight back to KL


She cope up with the trip well.
No major stress or confusion. Makes me feel so relieved ☺️☺️☺️