Cauliflower AND Blueberries?? Woah!

Ok yeah, I know we are breaking the rules... only introduce one food at a time to your baby.  With a combination of my impatience, and also my wariness about Cauliflower (it seemed chunky and I was worried about gagging) as well as that it's pretty bland... I figured I should have blueberries as a backup.  I found some really nice ones at HoneyPot Orchards, so they were a nice ripe local set. Plus I doubt Cauliflower is much of a common allergen.  We figured at least both would be interesting!

First I plopped down the steamed Cauliflower, and it was apt since this time we actually had Cauliflower for dinner ourselves! (though ours had a lot more with it).  As usual, she looked at it a bit and then reached for a whole floret, squishing it a bit and shoving it straight in her mouth.  She really is getting good at this trying new foods thing.  To my surprise, she managed to bite off hunks of it and squish it around in her mouth pretty well, and never actually gagged! I was seriously impressed. Im not sure she got a ton of it down until she started taking fistfulls of the broken up florets into her mouth, but she did pretty well!

Once we made it through a bunch of the florets, we put down some sliced blueberries.  Again I was nervous about choking (this time yes choking - small round things are not good for airways!), so I pulled out some big blueberries and sliced them in half.  I read a few other suggestions like "freeze for two days, then thaw under warm water & no need to slice".  I wasnt sure how she would do with these since they definitely require some good pincher grasp.  She seems to be getting pretty good, but these would be the true test of it.

While on the tray, she did OK with the blueberries, she at first couldnt really figure out how to pick them up, so we gave her one to try from our fingers, but eventually just grabbed a fistfull and shoved it in her mouth, most made it in, some didnt.  She chewed them up pretty well, but it was kinda funny that the skins seemed to get stuck everywhere, and she ended up with purple drool.  It wasnt as bad as some of the photos I've seen, but it was kinda funny.  At one point I got her to stick out her tongue and show me the skin! lol.

Baby AHHHHHH!!

I also made a puree of blueberries for the morning cereal/yogurt.  The first batch I made I just threw some blueberries in my nutribullet and added maybe a quarter cup of water.  They came out more than moist enough, so I decided to skip the water for the next batch, which was better.  They are still pretty moist, but worked well.  I also tossed some leftover apricots (sliced) in my nutribullet and blended those up to freeze.  No water they came out nice and thick.

Recommendations
Cauliflower: Break off small florets and place in steamer.  Steam for 15 minutes, leave lid on and allow to cool for super soft texture.
Blueberries: Wash and pick through berries, remove stems and bad berries.  Take out some large ones and slice in half. Give to baby.
Blueberry Puree: Wash and pick through berries, remove stems and bad berries.  Puree berries whole without any water.