Home Made Play Dough Recipe

An old fashioned favorite that is still just as exciting today as it was years ago - play dough!

My girls love play dough - and how much more fun it is when we make it from scratch. They get to choose their own color and add a scent if they want. Today's choice was a batch of peppermint pink. The aroma of the mint filled my kitchen and it looked like pink cupcake frosting. But we dared not take a taste with our finger knowing we would get a mouth full of salt.

I hope you enjoy this recipe with your children or grand children. Have fun with being creative with colors and scents.

Play Dough

2 cups water
choice of food coloring
3 tbs oil
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tbs powdered alum (can be found at Michaels)
1/2 cup salt

Put 2 cups of water, oil and food coloring into a sauce pan and bring to boil. Set aside.

In large bowl mix the flour, alum and salt. Pour the hot water mixture over the flour mixture and mix well. At this point you can add your scented oils if desired. I use the flavored oils you can purchase at most grocery stores. After it cools a bit in the bowl then knead well. Store in air tight containers or ziplocks.

Rebecca's Ravenous Chicken Salad

I love creating in the kitchen! Today I wanted to re-create a favorite chicken salad we like from Chelsie's Deli. Not knowing their ingredients - I created my own version.

This is what you will need:

1 whole lemon-pepper rotisserie chicken (or any flavor) or one whole baked chicken.
3-4 celery stalks
4 green onion with stalks
1 clove garlic
fresh ground sea salt
fresh ground pepper
lemon and pepper seasoning (can find in seasonings at store)
red pepper flakes
garlic salt
dijon mustard
plain greek yogurt
lowfat mayonnaise

First, separate all meat from bones and skin. Place chunks of chicken in food processor and process in batches. Place processed chicken in a large bowl.

Next, lavishly season the chicken with the sea salt, pepper, lemon pepper seasoning, red pepper flakes and garlic salt. Mix well - taste to your liking.

Next, prepare your vegetables for food processor. Chop the celery, green onion and garlic then add all to food processor. Process.

Combine processed vegetables to chicken mix. Then add 1 tbs dijon mustard, 1 tbs greek yogurt and 1 tbs low fat mayo. Mix well. Taste and add more if needed to your liking.

One great thing about this recipe is that there is so much flavor in the seasoned meat and vegetables that not much mayo or yogurt is needed which makes the recipe very low fat. Yet very delicious! To many times you will find your salad drenched in high fat mayonnaise which ruins it. Have fun and enjoy on varieties of bread, crackers or on lettuce leaves.