3rd
Playing the waiting game with homemade playdough
38weeks+1day…still no sign of active labour. Not in nesting mood today, so decided to play masak-masak with Sarah.
Sarah has this BBQ Playdoh set (aunty Zoora gave her for her 2nd birthday earlier this year) but unfortunately, by now the dough has masuk angin & gone hard like rock, crumbles as we tried to separate them *sigh*. And so we decided to make……. our own playdough!
Step 1: (recipe courtesy of this site) Mix all the ingredients in a saucepan;
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 cup salt
- 4 tablespoons cream of tartar
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Step 2: Make the dough
Sarah was so excited that i let her ‘cook’ the mixture. Don’t worry, she was stirring the mixture without any fire underneath the saucepan. I just let her be at the stove so that she feels like she’s cooking for real ;)
When the ingredients were all mixed through, i took over, heat up the pan and stir the mixture continuously until the mixture congeal. Took off the heat, show it to my QC manager (Sarah of course), she poke her lil finger gently in the dough and approves the sticky-soft clay texture of the dough, yay!
Step 3: Knead colourings into dough
I wanted to make the dough as colourful as possible, but unfortunately we only have 2 colours of food coloring in the pantry - - -yellow and red. So i split the dough into 3 balls and add a few drops of yellow, (yellow + red) and red colorings in the dough and knead them. (I put a lil too much of (yellow+red) colorings on the 2nd dough mr.Daddy said the dough looked like a chunky raw steak *yeowww* so that resulted to the pastel pink for the 3rd dough - mama’s playing safe :P)
Step 4: Play!
Sarah & I were all set for our barbecue cook out (bbq lunch? err..)
“You want some raw-meat burger?”
The menu during our cookout was endless! Well, it was not limited to only food…Sarah made: burgers, mushroom, rambut (??) - her favorite! (rambut mama, rambut daddy, rambut Mak Su……(????)) , snake, banana, kuih raya, karipap, smiley face, sad face, ball, ‘kuih kodok’, doughnuts. She made them “sampai banyak-banyak” (she likes to say it like that) and sampai penat! You bet it was easy to make her eat and finish her lunch (of sausage, nasi lemak & spaghetti bolognese! sangat lapar ok!), shower and doze off for her afternoon nap right after our masak-masak activity!
