Stuffed cheesy bread on crack

My in laws and parents absolutely love this. Its very very popular in the Nielsen home. Its easy and fun to make and in the end you devour every last bit.
So I don't put in poppy seeds and dijon mustard. You can add them if you wish but i didn't and it tasted just fine. For the cheese I at least use 2-3 small bags of cheese. The ones that say 2 cups on them.

What you'll need:

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• 1 french bread loaf or italian loaf bread
• 1 stick of butter, melted
• 1/8 c olive oil
• 3 tsp garlic, grated
• 1 tbsp dijon mustard
• 1 tbsp poppy seeds
• 3 tsp chopped parsley
• 12 oz grated cheese ( italian mix and monterey jack)

What to do:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place tinfoil on cookie sheet than the bread loaf
Cut the bread into cubes with X slices without cutting all the way through the bottom crust.
Pour the butter-onion garlic mixture carefully into the X cracks using a small spoon or pastry spreader and over the top of the bread. Fill the cracks with cheese make sure you get every single crack.
Wrap entire loaf with foil, sealing the sides properly and bake for 15-20 min. Remove from oven and unwrap. Bake for another 10 min till cheese is all melted.

Homemade baby food *updated 1/26

Homemade baby food is cheaper and healthier for your baby. I just started making it and never realized how easy it is. My mother bought me a baby bullet on sale for $20 and it has everything in it. This thing is amazing, I absolutely love it. I love the instruction booklet in it that shows how to make everything. From milling rice to showing baby's feeding schedule. It has it all from up to 2 years old.
Jarred baby food ranges from 98 cents to 60. 60 cents was the cheapest I found.
 I also froze it, the set comes with  freezing, easy pop batch try. (The white on in the picture). The little cups has dials on the top to date when they expire. It also has a chop and a milling blade, spatula, big and small mix cups and food information.
When I was using up my jarred baby food I kept the jars and ran them through the dishwasher and kept them and put my own food in them. When I would fill them I would put tape on them and label what they are and date them. I also froze them in the jars and they turned out fine.
Frozen lasts up to a month and refrigerated is 3 days.  

I started mixing bananas and tried it out. We tested it on my son and he absolutely loved it. He went nuts, he loved it so much better than jarred. He ate 2 things of it and 5 oz of milk. I like making my own cause I know whats in it.

Now for mixing. These ideas came from the booklet I got with the baby bullet. Some are my ideas.

 Here are some ideas you can mix:

Food for 4-6 months

• 1 full banana with 1/4 c water or less water if you want it more thicker. 
• 1 full apple peeled (you can steam it if you want) with 1/4 c water
• half an apple, peeled and half a banana with 1/4 c of water or less ( i also added some of the blended zucchini in place of the water and he loved that too. I did that cause he wouldn't eat the zucchini)
• Steamed Zucchini ( i just sliced it, steamed it and cubed it and shoved it in the processor and added a little water cause zucchini has water in it). 
• 1 to 1/2 c of frozen peas, defrosted and steamed. Mix with 1/4 c of water or less. 
• 1 avocado, mix with little bit of water.
• 1-4 carrots, peeled and steamed. Mix with 1/4 c water.

Food for 7-9 months

• 3-4 stalks of asparagus, steamed and mix with 1/4 c water or less
• Hand full of blueberries and a half a banana with 1/4 c yogurt.
• 2-3 Apricot peeled and boiled. Add some apples to it to make it more sweeter and some water.
• half of a peach, peeled and 1/4 c of water or less water.  
• Summer squash, peas, carrots and peas. Mince all ingredients, steam and blend with 1/4 c water. 
• 1 mango, peeled and de seeded. Mix with 1/4 c water. 
• Half of sweet potatoes, steamed and mix with 1/4 c water. 
• 2 potatoes peeled, cut and steamed, 2 carrots peeled, cut and steamed with 1/4 c water or more. 
• Oatmeal- get 1/2 c of uncooked oatmeal and place in small cup and use mill chopper. Mill it till it turnes into a powder. Add to pot and 1/4 c of water and cook till it boils. With this you can add to peaches, any veggie, apples, bananas, ect... I just added peaches a little bit of water and oatmeal. Enough oatmeal to cover the peaches.  I mixed it really well and it turned out good my son loved it. 

Food for 10 months-1 year

At this point I would just make a regular dinner and blend it up and put it in the jars. I would freeze some and refrigerate the rest. Of course I would label them and date them. For the frozen ones I put the date that I made it on it. Also at the 11 month point I didnt really have to blend most of the food. At a year Im starting to put it in a bowl and showing him what its for. Ill get a bowl and eat from it and show him that mommy does it too. 

• Spaghetti (his all time favorite food), blend with 1/4 c of water or more. It takes a lot to blend this and I didnt really mince it I left it kinda chunky so he can learn to chew. 
• Chicken spaghetti, blend with 1/4 c of water or more. This is the same as the regular spaghetti.
• Ham and corn soup
• Ham and potato soup
• Any kind of soup that is fit for this age group
• Manicotti (he loves it)
• Black beans, kidney beans.. any kind of bean. Cook and blend with 1/4 c of water or less. 
• Any beef, chicken or turkey will do
• Any kind of dinner you make will work great, just be careful what you give them. I made chili one day and I knew my son could not have that. Thats why its nice to have others blended for them so if you had like taco night you could give them spaghetti. 

More to come!!!!