Salt Clay Recipe

Materials

2 Cups Flour
1/2 Cup Salt
2 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
1/2 Cup - 3/4 Cup Water
Food Coloring
Bowl
Cookie Sheet

1. Mix together the flour, salt and oil in a bowl.

2. Add water and knead. Add more water as necessary to make the dough smooth and pliable.

3.Knead in the food coloring

4. To bake objects made from the dough, place them on a cookie sheet. Bake them at 350 degrees until the are golden bround and firm to a gentle touch.

Cooking With The Kiddos - Chocolate Chip Cookies

Don't you just hate those commercials that show the mom and the child "Baking" together with pre-made cookie mix and is narrated how great it is to spend time with your family. Well, I do. It's great for a quick moment. I do not like the pre-made cookie mixes. They're fine once you take them out of the oven, but after a couple of hours, they're hard as a rock, and they don't taste the same as homemade. My mom always made homemade cookies. It only took about 10 minutes or less, to prepare it, and another 10 minutes to bake. Not that long.
Today my oldest son, Tristan and I made Chocolate Chip Cookies. We make them a lot.

Here is the recipe...

1 Cup Butter Flavored Crisco
2 Eggs
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
3/4 Cup White Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Water
1 Teaspoon Vanilla

Beat Until Creamy

1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 1/4 Cups Flour

Stir by hand. Add in 6oz (or more) Chocolate Chips.

Drop on ungreased cookie sheet. (I use an air bake cookie sheet)

Bake 10-12 Minutes At 375 Degrees

Here's what we did...

Tristan mixing it all together
I buy the Nestle 72 oz bag,of chocolate chips, since we make them all the time

I roll my cookie dough, to make it easier to place on the cookie pan


Then pry it apart about 1 inch pieces


Place on cookie sheet


Do the same with the rest


After we take them out of the oven, we have it sit on the cookie sheet for about 3-5 minutes


Then we put them on a cooling rack


Tristan taking his first bite


And we got a thumbs up

Tomato Surprise With Ze Tristan - Healthy Snack For Children

Tristan likes to watch Ze Fronk on The Disney Channel. It's actually pretty cute, because Ze Fronk will teach a new recipe and it's healthy, which get's children want to make it and try it too. Well Tristan has been wanting to make Ze Fronk's Tomato Surpise for awhile now, so we tried it today. We didn't quite do it exactly like Ze Fronk, be pretty much.

Ingredients:
Tomato
Cottage Cheese
Jimmies

Cut the top of the tomato


Then gut the insides out


Tristan then stuffed the the tomato with cottage cheese


After he stuffed the cottage cheese he sprinkle the top with jimmies



Whoolah


Tristan's 1st bite