Monkey Chow

Yesterday I added butternut squash to the Monkey's diet. It was locally grown -- well, it was grown in Pennsylvania, but that's pretty close. (It was included in our subscription agriculture service. Thanks, Farmer Randy!) Link to Star Hollow Farm.

For those keeping score at home, here are the various mushed up foods (in order of introduction) that we have fed to the Monkey:

• Sweet potato
• Avocado
• Banana
• Apple
• Rice cereal
• Apricot
• Pear
• Butternut squash

For the most part, we use organic fruits and vegetables. I usually cook them in a pressure cooker (10 minutes for sweet potato, 4 minutes for pears), puree them with a stick blender (aka "soup dildo" to certain readers), and freeze them in freezer trays. They come out in 1 oz. cubes that take 40 seconds to microwave.