ghoti_mhic_uait

Andreas: Some zombies live in the sky. They fly through the window and eat meat.
Me: No, that's flies
Andreas: Oh. But they're *like* zombies
Judith: And mosquitoes are vampires, they eat blood from live humans

Judith has a much loved Disney storybook, half of which is given over to a story about a picnic planned by Minnie but executed by all of the super six.

There has been much talk about all 55 pages of that story, and much reading, and today, we finally made the meal described ourselves: hotdogs in buns with ketchup and mustard, corn on the cob, lemonade and fruit salad. There's not a lot of preparation in the mains, and I mostly did that, but the fruit salad and lemonade are explained in detail, and the lemonade in particular is a bit more work.

The fruit salad is blueberries, watermelon and pineapple, I did the chopping, she did the mixing, and it was much appreciated.

The lemonade contains both lemon and lime juice, and also cocktail cherries, which was a surprisingly good idea, I'm not sure it will ever be a regular feature on our table, but it was delicious.(ALso, another new recipe for me, so if I run out of ideas by day 7, might get counted in 7 days, 7 recipes challenge, even though it's a bit cheaty as Judith did the work.)

Do any of you know where I can get a dress like this? http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2011/07/rainbow-birthday-dresses.html

I mean, I could make one myself out of tshirts, but I'm not good at sewing machines so it would be hand sewn which takes ages.

On wednesday, I made cauliflower cheese. Judith nibbled hers and then said 'I want a clean one please'.

On thursday, I made sausages. I misheard something she said, and gave her two sausages instead of one. She said 'I want one sausage, you gave me two sausage' pause for thought 'you give me one no sausage'.


Today, Judith cooked. We haven't eaten it yet, but it smells good and I have every confidence it will be delicious.

Cashew curry with pineapple rice

Soak 200g cashews overnight (start with boiling water to cover)
Whisk 1tsp red curry paste[*] with 1 can coconut milk. Fry an onion (get your sous chef to do that if you're little). Tear up an assortment of veg, and mix all the ingredients together. Bake in the oven at 200degC or about 30 minutes.

Pineapple rice - she measured the rice, she chopped some pineapple (with her kitchen scissors) and we added juice and water until there was twice as much liquid as rice by volume.

I'm going to make rhubarb and mango smoothies to drink with it, too.

[*] I use bought at the moment, but when this is up, we'll probably make it up in advance.

Last time we went to the Pulley playpark was the first time Andreas went out in the pram.




I took lots of pictures but forgot to post them until we went back to the park today.

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The weather today was a little different!

Me: What's your favourite animal?
Judith: [Ele]phants. Oh, and I like mine baby too.

gerald_duck asked about Judith's favourite music. Today she said her favourites are 'I can help' by Elvis and 'Rock-a-hula baby' by Elvis. So I think Elvis, as in so many situations, is the answer :) Now I'm trying to track down one compilation with both songs on, and not having a lot of luck. Any ideas, or should I just give up and buy the albums?

Judith today sang this song:

Weather frightful
Wellies dightful
Play again
Rain rain rain

or, to add the extra words (with a bit of artistic license in line 3):

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But my wellies are so delightful
I'm going to play again
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain

Judith just brought me a bag of porridge oats.

"Do you want me to make you some porridge?"
"Yes"
"Do you know what porridge is?"
"Yes"
"What's porridge?"
"Yum"

Can't argue with that :)