First Batch of Scented Salt Dough

This is my first batch of souped up salt dough.  It's the first I've cooked, colored, and scented.  The kidlet loved it.  I loved the peppermint scent as she mashed and blended and occasionally made a puppy or cthulu.

The cooked version is only a little more complicated than the raw version AND is way more betterer.

(It lasts longer without drying out at room temp, and it's smoother.  I must confess that I haven't baked this version so I can't rate its permanent ornamentness).

It's a classic recipe that I've just never had a reason to use.

MIX:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup salt

1 cup water

1 Tablespoon oil (cheapest in your cupboard)

2 teaspoons cream of tartar

Cook on low heat until it holds together. Let cool.  Take outta the pan and knead in 5 drops up to 1tsp of peppermint essential oil.  I used Aura Cacia brand, in case you care.  Any kind besides VitaCost - that shit is crap. AuraCacia is good and not overpriced.

Divide into 8 equallish balls.  With regular boring old food coloring, ROY G BIV up 7 of the dough balls.  Leave one of them plain. Stick them in airtight containers. 

Try not to get the sads when your toddler mixes them all into a purplish mass. It will happen.  Gives us a reason to make more...

XOXO

Eggs and end of summer veggies

Melt butter on medium hot.  Throw in a few chopped garlic cloves, a block of tofu cut into 2 inch blocks.  Um add a little olive oil because you didn't add enough butter at the intro. Add a handful of roughly chopped tomatoes. Mine are Black Krim, small but mighty.  Add one summer squash thinly sliced.  Add salt, pepper, a little bit of ground cumin, and a little bit of some kind of smoky chili powder and cook until the squash is all tenderlike.  Add a couple eggs and slightly scramble in the middle of the mess. Eat. Verdict from kid: not too bad.

THE LEAGUE

Oh fuck how I have missed you and your terrible characters.
P.S. Bears all the way?  :/

Tiny Tornado

Inspired by a couple of parents that accept their kid.  I hope to do the same.

Eating Nasturtium

I do not like nasturtium in my mouth.  I've tried the flowers.  I've tried the leaves.  I've tried the seedpods.  I've tried these all straight off the vine.

However, nasturtium seedpods when picked green and soaked in pickle juice for two weeks are pretty good.

I may yet try the trick of cream cheese stuffed nasturtium flowers. 

Finally, a poppy flower.

Small human visitors had picked the fuzzy buds before they got to bloom last month.  I am so glad this one got to this stage.

Totoro

Stitching.