baby time

I'm sooo much in love with little ones these days. I want a baby. NOW. It fills my mind every day, and I suppose my biology wants to tell me something... my hormones are playing "classics for baby" recently, and they're getting louder each day. As a consequence, I'm very much affected by ANY YOUNG CHILD that crosses my way (which is rather funny at work, where I had to examine a pair of very cute female newborn twins yesterday and suddenly behaved like a teen- the mother looked rather bewildered..ummm). Even worse if it concerns people I know. I've started to produce A LOT of baby stuff in the last weeks. For example, these two:



It's for my dear friend Chris who gave birth to Damian two weeks ago (and she's 6!!! years younger than I am ...). Poor Mr. P. He loves children and he wants some, but not AT ONCE, which I can understand quite well as he's still younger than me, and I won't definitely try to make him want a child if he doesn't... but I simply feel that it's time for me. Puh. Any suggestions??? ;)

(By the way, the sweet cap is made of this pattern.)

Yummy Almond Milk

You know, I am always curious about trying new food ingredients and recipes. When I spotted different sorts of prefabricated almond milk in our organic supermarket, I simply had to test it. I already had rice drink and several sorts of soy milk, I love soy milk, but almond milk never crossed my mind so far.
Enjoying the lovely morning sun, I am just experiencing my first almond milk latte. Half cup strong coffee, half cup luke warm almond milk, that seems to be a fine mixture, and thanks to the sweet taste of the pure almond milk you don't need any sweetener or sugar. (By the way, the nutritional value of it is only about 38 kcal per 100 g which is even less than that of skimmed milk) It has a slight flavour of grain when heated, but that's what I expected and what you get in most sorts of soy milk, too. Only be careful not to let it boil as it curdles easily then.



Well, now I will do some research for recipes with almond milk. I just found a french dessert called "blancmanger", this seems to be something like an almond milk version of panna cotta (which I ADORE) ... probably worth a try for the next dinner with the girls ;) And another recipe, almond milk bread from german Küchenlatein blog. Sounds scrumptious and looks great!
If any of you has some ideas whatelse to do with this yummy drink, please share! I'm keen on collecting more ideas. And what do you think of almond milk as baby food? Better not take it as an alternative for breastfeeding or formula, but what are your experiences with almond milk as a base for mash or something like that when you start with solid food?