Tag: cheese

Spanish Omelette Recipe

Lydia | November 9, 2013

If you’re looking for a quick, tasty and healthy family meal this Spanish Omelette recipe is great. It’s perfect for lunch or dinner and you can even eat it cold on a picnic.

Ingredients

1 Red Onion
2 cloves of Garlic
6 Free-Range Eggs
500g New Potatoes (roughly 8 potatoes)
1/2 cup grated Cheese
Sliced Tomato for the topping
Olive oil for cooking

Method

1. Wash and cut the potatoes (peel if desired) into small cubes.

2. Boil the potatoes until soft. Allow the potatoes to cool.

3. Finely chop the onion and garlic. Gently fry in a little olive oil.

4. Crack the eggs into a bowl and mix together. Stir in the onion and garlic.

5. Pour a little olive oil into a non-stick fry pan and heat. Add the potatoes evenly across the pan and pour the egg mixture on top.

6. Cook for 15 minutes until almost set and golden brown underneath.

7. Gently push the tomatoes into the top of the omelette and sprinkle over the grated cheese.

8. Put the fry pan under the oven grill (be careful to ensure the pan handle is outside the oven as this could get very hot and burn).

9. Cook for a further minute or two until golden on top.

10. Ready to serve. Grind some black pepper over to taste.

Spanish Omelette is delicious with a side salad in summer or seasonal greens in winter.

Introducing Your Baby to Dairy

Lydia | September 2, 2013

Nutritionally, babies need breastmilk or infant formula until they are one year old. From the age of six months full-fat cow’s milk can be used in cooking and with baby’s breakfast cereals and cow’s milk can be introduced as a main drink from the age of 12 months.

Dairy is an important part of your child’s diet providing essential nutrients such as calcium. When you start weaning your baby at around six months of age you can begin to slowly introduce a variety of foods.

Dairy can be given to baby from the age of six months in the form of cheese but avoid giving blue cheese or soft unpasteurised cheese, such as Camembert and Brie, until your baby is at least one year old. Blue cheese and unpasteurised cheese contain live bacteria which carries the risk of food poisoning.

Yoghurt is a good source of dairy for baby and can be given from the age of six months.

Allergies to Cow’s Milk

Some babies are allergic to cow’s milk so it is important when weaning your baby to introduce foods one at a time over a few days to check for any allergic reactions. You should seek urgent medical help if you think your baby is having an allergic reaction.

A food allergy is when the immune system reacts to a certain food protein resulting in a physical reaction which can occur immediately or within three days.

If your child has cow’s milk allergy the symptoms will start when cow’s milk is introduced into their diet. Symptoms of cow’s milk allergy could result in diarrhoea, vomiting, skin rashes, stomach cramps and difficulty breathing. In rare cases cow’s milk allergy can cause anaphylaxis.

Cow’s milk allergy is a common food allergy in children and most children who have this allergy grow out of it by the age of three, although it is estimated that 20 per cent of adults will continue to have cow’s milk allergy.

Alternatives

Aside from cow’s milk products there are many food sources that contain high levels of calcium. So if your child does have an allergy to dairy products you can still make sure your child’s diet is rich in calcium. Some good sources of calcium rich foods include sesame seeds, sardines canned in oil, spring greens, tofu, watercress and kale.

Lydia Oliver – Nutritional Advisor Only Best For Baby

This article was published in the September 2013 edition of Mummy and Me Magazine.

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Family Picnic Food

Lydia | February 3, 2013

We love to have picnics regularly throughout the year. There’s something magical about eating outdoors enjoying good food with family and friends, differing vistas and fresh air.

We eat picnics in the garden, at the beach, in the forest, in the park and on our balcony in the city of London. When it’s too cold to be sitting outside to eat we have been known to get a rug out and have a picnic on the floor of our apartment, with the company of our cats Louis and Mia who will nibble at any leftover cheese.