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Homemade Play Dough — Colourful Palate. Homemade Play Dough This week has been very special because my sister and her family have been visiting.

Homemade Play Dough — Colourful Palate

The BEST Play-Dough Recipe. Have you ever made play dough and it just fell apart??

The BEST Play-Dough Recipe

Well… not this time. This recipe will make play dough that is seriously the closest thing to store-bought you’ll ever make. No falling apart or drying out (as long as stored in a sealed container). It will last up to 6 months.The secret to this recipe?? Two things: First, Cream of Tarter… it’s what helps the dough stay together. and Second, not a lot of salt… all that salt dries out your dough!

Ready to make it? Ingredients: 1 C Flour 1 C Water 1/4 C Salt 1 TBSP Vegetable Oil 2 tsp Cream of Tarter Food Coloring (actual coloring or a kool-aid packet will do) Sparkles (If you wanna be a fun mom!) Pour in all ingredients. Stir until everything is mixed well. Once the mixture is (mostly) clump free. Stir. Stir, Stir Stir.Just keep stirring until the Play Dough is formed.

Remove from heat, and knead by hand. Watermelonade Recipe at Epicurious.com. Photo by Roland Bello yield Makes 1 gallon (serves 16) active time 30 min total time 30 min You would be hard-pressed to find something more refreshing than watermelon.

Watermelonade Recipe at Epicurious.com

100 Delicious, Dirt-Cheap Recipes for the Starving Student. Most students don’t have a lot of cash to spend on food, but that doesn’t mean you have to go hungry.

100 Delicious, Dirt-Cheap Recipes for the Starving Student

With the right recipes and some kitchen savvy, you can eat great even on a student’s budget. Here we’ll share 100 tasty recipes that you can make on the cheap. Along with saving money on meals, budget-savvy students can also save big on a college education by attending inexpensive online colleges. Breakfast. Watermelon! 9 Summer Recipes. Every year, we look forward to summer for the sultry weather, skin-baring outfits, and picnics in the park.

Watermelon! 9 Summer Recipes

And yet, everyone complains about the heat. Glitter eggs. For this year's Easter tree, that I am in the process of making, I need some new eggs to hang on it.

Glitter eggs

I have recycled my previously painted eggs from my Easter 2010 table by covering them in glitter to match this year's Easter colour scheme of mint, peach and gold. Glitter eggsTools and Materials. Baked Zucchini Sticks and Sweet Onion Dip: that bloomin’ zucchini! Today, class, it being late July and all, we’re going to examine our zucchini facts: •Zucchini is always at the end of any A-to-Z food list; •Zucchini and fruitcake are the undeserving targets of many a joke; •The zucchini plant literally grows like a weed, making it absolutely ubiquitous in vegetable gardens across America; •And for that reason, enterprising cooks have discovered ways to turn it into muffins, and cake, and pancakes, and… Baked Zucchini Sticks.

Baked Zucchini Sticks and Sweet Onion Dip: that bloomin’ zucchini!

You know that onion appetizer that came into bloom back in the late ’80s? Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread. Carnation milk recipes. Desserts. My Own Sweet Thyme. LaSaGnA TiMpAnO. I went to see tUnE-yArDs on Monday night with some friends, and as always we wanted to cook a meal that somehow related to the show we were heading to.

LaSaGnA TiMpAnO

Sometimes this is hard to do, but other times it seems to come naturally. Finding culinary inspiration in Merrill's lyrics seemed like it would be tough, but my sister knew what she wanted to make without hesitation. "How about something layered, because of all the vocal and instrument layering in the music? " From there we worked together to come up with this deep, colorful, and multi-flavored lasagna version of a timpano. If you are using words like deep, colorful, and multi-flavored to describe something inspired by tUnE-yArDs, you already know you got it right! Start by making a lasagna crust. Finally got it together. Now it's easy, just start building the layers! Alfredo sauce with some salami goes first. After 3 alfredo layers, I switched to pesto.

A cheese only layer, just for fun. Tomato sauce is last. All sealed up. After baking. Pumpkin Bread with Cinnamon Pecan Filling. So, October is almost over, can you believe that?

Pumpkin Bread with Cinnamon Pecan Filling

It’s been quite the month for me. You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been around this place much lately. That’s because October 8th, my mom was admitted to the ICU with a massive blood clot, a saddle pulmonary embolism. It was there the doctor looked me in the eye and told me that the mortality rate for this condition was incredibly high, he compared it to a heart attack and stroke, and that I should prepare myself for the worst. My mom spent over a week in the hospital, and I stayed with her the entire time. Needless to say, it’s been a tough month. I’m starting the best way I know, with food! Pumpkin Bread with Cinnamon Pecan FillingAdapted from Martha Stewart, makes 2 loaves 3 cups all purpose flour2 tsp baking powder2 tsp baking soda2 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon1/2 tsp nutmeg1/4 tsp ground allspice1/4 tsp salt2 cups canned pumpkin purée1 cup granulated sugar1 cup packed brown sugar4 large eggs1/4 cup vegetable oil1 1/2 cup milk.