Monday, September 8, 2008

Unplugged Soft


This week's Unplugged Theme was soft. I decided I'd like to try a project that I've been wanting to do with Paige - make soft pretzels. Paige loves playing with any kind of dough, so I thought that she'd enjoy doing that. However, I didn't get my act together early enough to find a recipe and ingredients. However, Roland had some pizza dough, so we made fried dough instead.

The perfectionist in me kept thinking - Fried Dough is a silly project for "soft," but I had to convince myself to let it go - after all, weren't we going to be using dough either way??

Roland helped me with this project. He opened some premade pizza dough - Pillsbury, I think. He gave Paige a piece to play with and told her to flatten it out.



First she made it into a ball, but we eventually got her to roll it out. We don't have a rolling pin here and I couldn't find a can, so I gave her a jar of peanut butter to help her roll it out. :) Then Roland put some sugar and cinnamon in an old spice container and let her mix it up, while he fried the dough. When it came out and was cool, we sprinkled the cinnamon sugar on and enjoyed them!

Not a huge project, but it was fun, and yummy!

9 comments:

  1. I think this looks like fun.Cal would sure love it!!!

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  2. oh how i wish we had prepared dough in australia!! there is nothing like that here.. maybe I am lucky.. .otherwise I would eat fried bread everyday and put on weight!!

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  3. Yum fried dough. I use to get that all the time at the fairs when I was a kid. So good. thanks for the memories.

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  4. A project and food all in one! My kind of craftiness!!!!

    And good idea about the Pretzel..I am in Germany after all! How hard could it be to make a Brezel?

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  5. This is such a grear tactile activity. Not only did she get to feel "soft" she got to tast "yummy". But most important you spent time together!! What a fantastic Mom!!!

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  6. hi i simply love your blog u are finally getting a hang of being imperfect!!!
    all the best
    love
    Qudsya

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  7. I think your project is wonderfully fun!

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  8. My girls love anything with dough; we'll have to try this.
    Love the "fairy dip" idea by the way:)

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