Cooking for Baby: Wholesome, Homemade, Delicious Foods for 6 to 18 Months

Makes a great gift
I received this book as a gift, as well as 'Top 100 Baby Purees' by Annabel Karmel. If you are considering purchasing one of these two titles, I really like the 'Cooking for Baby' cookbook - visually, it's very appealing, and the recipes are simple - something I, as the mother of a 6-month-old, appreciate.

I prefer this title over the other I mentioned as these recipes stay away from adding butter and milk to baby's dishes, whereas 'Top 100' uses these additives.

Thus far, I've only made a couple of the vegetable purees (and really, it's not these early recipes that make the book as it's pretty basic, common sense stuff) but am looking forward to making some of the dishes in the 7-to-8-month and beyond sections.

My favorite baby food book!
I have bought several baby food books and this is my "go to" book. It is well written and organized. Very easy to just work your way through the recipes to give your baby a nice variety of healthy foods. The recipes are great! My son didn't like plain green beans, then I made him this book's grean beans with mint puree and he loved it! Highly recommend.

Only Baby Cookbook You Need!
Okay, so once you get a little way down the road of introducing your baby to solid foods, you quickly realize it's basically "steam, blend, serve" (and freeze any leftovers). That being said, this book is an excellent guide to making baby food. It gave me confidence to feed my baby a wide range of healthy foods (and combined foods too). I love the illustrations, the nutritional sidebars, and the many helpful tips. And baby absolutely loves the food! I can't wait to make the carrot cake cupcakes for her one-year birthday.

Simple and Wonderful
This is a wonderful book if you are interested in cooking for your little one. It starts out with simple, single-food purees and gradually adds in foods with more ingrediants, textures and flavors. I like that it introduces different herbs and spices along the way. I have been using this book as a guideline for introducing foods since my son was six-months-old (now eleven months) and have been very happy with it. And I appreciate that even though it may introduce a food at 9 months, the author will mention if it is a food prone to allergic reations in case you want to hold off on giving it to your child. It tells you not only what foods to introduce, but how to prepare them so that you can keep the most nutrients in the dish. I've even learned to prepare a few foods from scratch that I'd never done before!

I appreciate that the foods taste like REAL FOOD. I usually taste them and don't cringe. I just bought my son a few jarred baby foods the other day because we were going to be traveling and I didn't want to bother with a cooler and he refused to eat most of it and I couldn't blame him - it smelled and tasted disgusting compared to what he's used too.

I would encourage anyone to purchase this book. It is well worth the money.

so so easy
As I photographer I must say beautiful photographs and as a mom awesome recipes. So easy to follow and they keep it simple. Would recommend to anyone looking to feed there baby the best baby food possible: homemade!