Well its absolutely pouring down here this morning so we are going to bake some biscuits and cakes. I have stacks of cookbooks but I can't find my Bero book that I usually use for my biscuit recipe so I just googled 'kids biscuit recipe' and found the simplest recipe ever:175g/6oz Plain Flour100g/4oz Butter or Margarine50g/2oz Caster SugarPre-heat oven to 150°C/300°F Gas Mark 2Cream the butter and sugar together until they are light and fluffy and then stir in the flour.Knead the dough together until it forms a ball, if the dough is a bit sticky, just add some more flour to the mixture.Next, … [Read more...]
Memory Books….
Ever since the kids were born I have kept a memory book for them, anything important or special thats happened to them has been stuck in their book and they love looking through them every now and again.We have just been having a look through them and having a good laugh at the pages in each book where we have written down some of the funny things that they have said so I thought that I would share some of them on here:* Grandad, you need to get the Dr to mend your belly cos its very big!* Daddy, will you scratch my willy for me....?* Look at all the stuff we just nicked! Said whilst walking … [Read more...]
Yorkshire Puddings….
Sunday Dinner wouldn't be Sunday Dinner without Yorkshire puds but no matter what I try I can't seem to get those huge yummy looking ones that you see on the TV!The recipe that I use is 100g of plain flour, 1/2 pint milk and 2 eggs. I heat the oven to the hottest temperature and then preheat the oil in my pudding tins. I do everything that the TV chef's say but.....They just don't work out right. If anyone has a better recipe or method that they want to share with me, please feel free.... … [Read more...]
Homemade book update….
So much for tomorrow's activity of making books.... Little Miss frugal just caught sight of the instruction video and 'just had' to make her book tonight....She also didn't like my suggestion about the book being about what we had done in the summer holidays and much preferred to make hers about a princess who lived on the beach. Excuse the spellings, she is only six.... And the reason that she has a mood on in the last pictures is that she thinks that she drew 'The End' too big and didn't want me to take a photo of that bit. We had fun making it but Master Frugal is in bed and I don't think … [Read more...]
Home Made Childrens Book….
Tomorrow we are going to make home made books and draw all of the things that we have done so far through the summer holidays. This is the way that we make our books, it only takes the kids about two minutes.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdOh5sz-W9w] … [Read more...]
Birthday Party Traumas
I have just got back from taking little Miss Frugal to a birthday party, it was in a church hall and had an all singing, all dancing, bubble blowing, light flashing disco there. The kids loved it!When they played 'Is this the way to Amarillo' all 25 kids stopped running about like mad freaks, got into a line and started doing exactly the same dance. Very weird, like a scene out a body snatcher movie!!! Turns out that this is their new song for wake and shake on a morning at school! That's a relief.The party was fantastic though, it was fancy dress and the parents had hired a church hall and a … [Read more...]
