Cooking!!

Abigail has been helping out a lot in the kitchen lately.

Sometimes she helps chop the vegetables,

she made scrambled eggs - a few times

and did some stir-fry.

Now just look what we cooked up for supper tonight:

Pork sausages and blue goop!

I'm joking!!

Here's the real story...

Abigail and Niave have somehow had a constant supply of play dough -the bought kind, given to them by various people at various times over the last 6 or so years.

I don't believe in bought play dough!!

But since they've had it given to them it's let me off the hook.

I do make a fair amount of play dough for school.

In the last few weeks all of the bought play dough has come to the end of it's life. And Abigail has been begging me to make some for them.

Sunday night was going to be the night because the school dough was in desperate need of replacement (you don't even want to know what children do to play dough! Lets just say that when they are sitting sweetly at the play dough table and happen to sneeze, guess what is perfectly positioned to catch the spray? Yup, you guessed it!)

So, on Sunday night we were all set to make a double batch - 1 for school and 1 for home - only to discover I only had 3 cups of flour left and not 4!

So we made the school dough because as I said it was DESPERATE! The deal was she would help me with that dough and we would make hers on Monday. Well we made it today:-)

I have to say that this is the best play dough recipe you'll ever find anywhere - guaranteed.

It comes out of The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Arts and Crafts book - a BRILLIANT book!

Here is the recipe in case you have a need for play dough:

1 cup salt

2 cups flour

4 teaspoons cream of tartar

2 tablespoons cooking oil

2 cups water

food colouring

Put all the ingredients in a pot and mix together.

Cook on a medium heat for 3 - 5 minutes stirring CONSTANTLY until it becomes stiff.

Store in an airtight container.

It really is quite simple!

Your arm will be ready to fall off after all the stirring but it's worth it, just look at the joy:

Goodness, who would have thought there'd be so much to say in a post about play dough!!