Saturday, April 5, 2014

Homemade Garlic Spread 【蒜香黄油】


My mum left the states when baby A was only 1 week shy of 3 months old. NS had to start traveling for his work too, mum's flight was the same day as NS, I had to drop her to the airport that night as NS left a couple of hours before mum. Seeing them go one after another that day was really depressing. My motherhood was relatively manageable before that with mum and NS around, out of a sudden I am left alone with a young baby.That particular night was one of the hardest for me, I left the airport after dropping mum with baby A and cried my way home.

With NS traveling all the time and Baby A not sleeping well at night, I was struggling to do everything alone and was constantly nervous about my baby's well being. NS being a sweet husband had done his research and found a very good daycare near our house, he got us registered and I started sending Baby A two half days a week so that I could run some errands and get some (much needed) rest.

Since baby A was exclusively breastfed (and still is, it's been 18 months and counting.). I used to go to the daycare in between to feed him. Over time I befriend his teacher Miss Loretta, she is a gem of a person and one of the sweetest I have ever met. Her good nature and thorough care for baby A calms a nervous first time mum like me, and in no time I felt at ease leaving baby A with her to go about doing my own stuff.

That was the start of a long term friendship, we have been keeping in touch and exchanging foods ever since! To make a long story short. Miss Loretta sent me a homemade baguette few days ago. I decided to make cream of broccoli soup and some garlic bread from the baguette she sent for dinner.

In return I sent her some homemade garlic spread and soup!

俊宝还差一个星期就三个月整的时候我妈因为不放心我爸,就飞回家乡去了。同一天在家陪产的俊爸也必须出差工作。孩子出生之后一直都有俊爸和妈妈在身边,突然只剩下我和宝宝,对一个新手妈妈来说,压力还是有点大的。

俊爸的飞机比妈妈早几个小时,当天晚上我只好带着宝宝和俊宝的干妈一起送妈妈的机,从机场往回家的路上开的时候我的眼泪没有停止过。

俊爸知道我的不安,出差前就把我们家附近的daycare都给安排好了。妈妈回去后,我就开始一个星期送宝宝到daycare两个半天,主要是让我有点时间休息和做点家务。因为宝宝全母乳又不喝奶瓶,所以我中间会去daycare喂一次奶,渐渐地就和daycare的老师变成了朋友。后来她离开了那家daycare,我们仍然保持联系,我们两家住得很近,所以经常见面聊天,也经常交换美食。

前天她送来一根她自己做的法棍。当天我就做了西兰花浓汤和蒜香酱,把她送的法棍做成蒜蓉面包,很好吃哦!

Ingredients: 
1 cup (2 sticks) Butter
1/4 cup chopped Parsley
2 tbsp Parmesan cheese
5-6 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp salt (omit if salted butter used)

材料: 
1 杯 (2 条) Butter /黄油
1/4 杯 切碎的欧芹 Parsley
2 大勺 Parmesan cheese
5-6 瓣 蒜瓣 切碎
1 小勺 食盐 (如果黄油带盐则免)



1. Leave the butter out to reach room temperature.
2. Add all ingredients to butter and blend well.
3. Spread the garlic butter over bread and toast until golden brown in color.

1。把黄油/butter放室温变软。
2。加入所有材料拌匀即可。
3。 把蒜香酱抹在面包上,烤香,开吃。

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