play dough for the kids

today I thought I would give you a recipe for play dough, this is great and easy to make.

Play dough

mix in a medium pot:

1 cup white flour

1/4 cup salt

2 Tbsp. cream of tartar

combine and add:

1 cup water

1/4 tsp vegetable food coloring

1 Tbsp. oil

cook over medium heat and stir ( about 3 to 5 minutes)
it will look like a "globby" mess. you will be sure that it is not turning out....but it will. when it forms a ball in the center of the pot, turn out and knead on a lightly floured surface. Store in and air tight container or plastic bag. this is edible but not tasty.

Dinner with pictures

I could not think what to have for dinner, so I came up with this.

pork tenderloin with sticky sauce.

and

stir fry veggies with balsamic vinegar.


would you like to know how to make these dishes?

Pork Tenderloin with sticky sauce.

You will need
1 pork tenderloin.

2 crushed or grated garlic cloves
about 1 inch of fresh ginger root, grated
1/4 cup Light soy sauce
1/2 cup water
1Tbsp oil
1 jalapeno seeded and diced.
1/4 cup of brown sugar.

to flour meat you will need.
about 1/2 cup flour season with salt and pepper
extra oil to brown meat in

what to do
slice the pork tenderloin on the diagonal about 1/2 inch thick, flatten with the heal of your hand.
heat a little oil in the pan while you flour the meat. add slices of meat to pan a few at a time and brown well on each side,

lay in an oven safe dish, the pieces can over lap a bit that is fine.

while the meat is browning combine the garlic, ginger, soy sauce, water, oil, jalapeno. Pre, heat oven to 300 F, when all the meat is in the pan pour over the sauce mixture, bake in the oven for 10 min. turn meat and continue to bake for 10 more min. turn meat again, juice should be thick and sticky, if not bake a few more min.

Stir Fry Veggies you will need.

1/2 green pepper

1/2 zucchini

10 sugar snap peas

pineapple chunks

1 Tbsp oil

3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar

1 tsp sugar.

what to do

stir fry the zucchini in oil for a few min. till just starting to get tender, add other veggies stir fry for 1 min. Add vinegar and sugar and cook till liquid has thickened and coats the veggies.

and to round off the meal we had this:

Its been a year

so I have had this blog set up for a year now. Have never posted a thing, its about time I started,
don't you think?
so hear goes.........