Roast dinner.

So Indigo had her first roast dinner last night, and like a true Yorkshire lass, she absolutely loved it. And what made the dinner extra special was that the potatoes and green beans were home grown by dad himself down the allotment.

The dinner: Roast chicken, homemade yorkshire puddings, green beans and carrots, and minted new potatoes (the mint was from the allotment too).

This was Indigo's first try with chicken and what a winner, easy to hold, nice and soft to chew on and probably quite easy to swallow as well! The yorkshire pudding was a hit too, we cut it in half as the whole one would have been almost the size of her head; she loved playing with/eating the yorkshire pudding the most, but it did cause some gagging, as once chewed on a bit it went quite doughy in her mouth. I should imagine that a doughy mouthful of yorkshire pudding, however perfectly made (by mommy), would be hard to swallow for a 6 month old, so maybe not that surprising that it caused some gagging.

We steamed the veg to make it easer to chew, although some of the french bean were hard to get in the mouth in the first place; they had been left to grow a bit too big, so they were like long wiggely worms that she managed to poke herself in the cheek, eye and nose with, but couldn't quite get it where it was suppose to go... she had a lot of fun trying though. Maybe we will cut our super long beans in half next time so they are not so bendy.

The roast dinner was a hit, she is half English after all so no big surprise there, and she will no doubt be enjoying many of those in the years to come.

Indigo enjoying a yorkshire pudding.