Parenting doesn’t seem so hard when it’s laid out like this.
“If you can make a margarita, you can make baby food, it’s that easy,” MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell told Yeas & Nays.
She and hubby Chef Geoff Tracy, owner of Chef Geoff’s, recently co-authored a baby food cookbook, “Baby Love,” which hits shelves at the end of the month. Luckily for Chef Geoff’s fans, the book includes some adult recipes, too — even a cocktail recipe for a mango margarita.
“All of these ingredients are part of other dishes, other recipes in the book,” Tracy said, explaining how he came up with the adult food recipes. “That’s why the mangoes are in the house — we show you how to turn it into a margarita once the kids go to sleep.”
But “Baby Love” mostly contains age-appropriate recipes for when the kids are awake, everything from baby guacamole to roasted red pepper and pomegranate hummus. In the Tracy-O’Donnell household, it’s the pancakes and chicken soup that reign supreme, with the Washington power couple’s three children recommending the whole grain blueberry pancakes with flax and Alba’s chicken soup, named after the kids’ nanny. However, the entire book was kid tested.
“There was no doubt that there were some failures, but those failures did not make it into the book,” Tracy said, admitting a blueberry puree he tried to make was a big flop with son Henry. (He made a blueberry and apple puree instead).
And while the book offers cooking and nutrition advice, it also suggests readers enjoy their favorite restaurant. Besides Chef Geoff’s, Tracy and O’Donnell like Two Amy’s and Black Salt. And for the whole family?
“The only restaurant I’m bold enough to bring my children to right now are the restaurants that I own just because I would be mortified,” the father of three said. “They have about a four-minute time period in which they can actually focus on sitting at the table.”
