My first food post! I'm one of those people who get inordinately excited by new cookbooks and recipes. Breads and deserts have always been my specialty, although in the past few years I've been working on learning more of the meats and entrees (including cooking full traditional Thanksgiving dinners a few years).
And so, for tonight's dining pleasure, drum roll please...
Scottish Shortbread!
One of my favorites.
Ingredients: 2 1/2 c. flour, 1/4 c. ground almonds, 1 c. butter softened, 1/2 c. superfine sugar, grated rind of 1/2 lemon.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, and grease a jellyroll pan or baking sheet. Blend all the other ingredients in a food processor. Spread out onto pan and flatten. Bake for 20 min. or until light golden brown color. Mark the shortbread into shapes while still soft, and then allow to cool.
Taa-daa! For those of you who think Scottish cooking consists only of haggis, try this.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sludge, slime and other wonderful fun
This blog will be entirely dedicated to things you can do at home-- ways to fix things, things to make, recipes...
Today's fun: assorted slimes and sludges (and even "clean mud") that you can do with the kids, or just play with yourself!
First up: Gak
Ingredients:
Elmer's glue, Borax, water and food coloring.
This one happens to be my favorite. Put 1c. Elmer's glue into a bowl. Add food coloring. In another bowl, mix about 1/2c. water with a couple tablespoons of Borax. Have the kids stir the glue with their hands while you pour the water/borax solution into it. Keep mixing (quickly!) until you end up with a rubbery, oozing slime mess that doesn't stick like glue anymore.
At first when you pour in the water/borax the glue starts to look kind of stretchy and stringy, and it feels absolutely gross. When the kids squeeze it in their hands, little snot-bubbles of glue will keep bursting until the whole mess gets mixed with the solution. It's gross, it's messy, and it's a total blast. Save it in a plastic bag or airtight container so it doesn't dry out!
Second: Oobleck
Ingredients:
Water, cornstarch, food coloring (I like my goo to be colorful)
Mix two parts cornstarch to one part water, and add food coloring. When you poke it, it's solid, but when you hold still, it's liquid and will run right through your hands. Makes an absolute mess, but it's so much fun to play with.
As promised: Clean Mud!
Ingredients:
Water, ivory soap, toilet paper
Use a cheese grater to grate up several bars of ivory soap. Shred lots of toilet paper. Put everything in a bowl, mix, and add water till you get a mud-like consistency. Best part is, when the kids are done playing, their hands are already half washed!
That's it for me for today, enjoy your merry mess-making!
Today's fun: assorted slimes and sludges (and even "clean mud") that you can do with the kids, or just play with yourself!
First up: Gak
Ingredients:
Elmer's glue, Borax, water and food coloring.
This one happens to be my favorite. Put 1c. Elmer's glue into a bowl. Add food coloring. In another bowl, mix about 1/2c. water with a couple tablespoons of Borax. Have the kids stir the glue with their hands while you pour the water/borax solution into it. Keep mixing (quickly!) until you end up with a rubbery, oozing slime mess that doesn't stick like glue anymore.
At first when you pour in the water/borax the glue starts to look kind of stretchy and stringy, and it feels absolutely gross. When the kids squeeze it in their hands, little snot-bubbles of glue will keep bursting until the whole mess gets mixed with the solution. It's gross, it's messy, and it's a total blast. Save it in a plastic bag or airtight container so it doesn't dry out!
Second: Oobleck
Ingredients:
Water, cornstarch, food coloring (I like my goo to be colorful)
Mix two parts cornstarch to one part water, and add food coloring. When you poke it, it's solid, but when you hold still, it's liquid and will run right through your hands. Makes an absolute mess, but it's so much fun to play with.
As promised: Clean Mud!
Ingredients:
Water, ivory soap, toilet paper
Use a cheese grater to grate up several bars of ivory soap. Shred lots of toilet paper. Put everything in a bowl, mix, and add water till you get a mud-like consistency. Best part is, when the kids are done playing, their hands are already half washed!
That's it for me for today, enjoy your merry mess-making!
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