Day Three Hundred and Forty-One - D'oh!

A couple of weeks ago fellow thing-a-dayer [by the way, I'm going to miss all of the fellow thing-a-dayers when their years are up - I hope they do continue blogging] Jen did something amazing. As one of her good deed she MADE HER OWN PLAY-DOH! I was entranced. I wanted to make my own right away and I was delighted when I saw that the components were things that pretty much everyone would have in their pantries. Except for one thing - cream of tartar. I looked in many different grocery stores and I consulted Al [he seems to know everything], who told me that due to the short shelf life of cream of tartar it is not widely stocked. But yknow who stocks it? Of course, the frakking Price Chopper. I located it on Friday evening [yes, grocery shopping is what I do almost every Friday night - woo!] and today, ta-dah I made my own Play-Doh! I am so pleased!


I know, it kinda looks like a ball of blue bread dough. Well...it is non-toxic! And I was surprised to learn that Play-Doh was based upon bread dough. Interesting! And while the official ingredients to real Play-Doh are a trade secret, they are essentially the same things I used [which is to say that Play-Doh is kinda food]. Still, I wouldn't recommend baking it up and eating it. And yes, mine is slightly more of a tye-dye blue, not a pure blue. What can I say? I'm lazy [we all know this already]...and I do think it looks pretty cool this way. To say nothing of the fact that I totally "blue myself" a la Tobias on Arrested Development. The whole process was very easy, although since I cut the recipe in half it was a bit more of a process to balance wet and dry ingredients. I was worried for a while that it was just not going to happen - mostly due to the smell [as a kid I LOVED the smell of Play-Doh and it made me want to take a bite, which I never did]. Then, as if by magic [okay, the addition of more flour], that familiar Play-Doh smell emerged. And yes, I did take a [little] bit. It's extremely salty and I wouldn't recommend it as a snack. So now...I have to think of something to make with the Play-Doh - mostly I just like squishing it.