I just wanted to share because no-one else in my family cares, ha ha! Today I promised DD4 that I would make playdough - but when I started to make it, realized that we are OUT of food coloring. Darn!
I was wracking my brain trying to figure out how to color the playdough - ANY color, but ended up just settling for white after looking through all my pantry and coming up empty handed.
Then...I happened to open the fridge and ding ding! Lightbulb moment. BEETS! I've been juicing in the mornings lately with beets, carrots, and apples (yum! DD4 begs me for some, lol). So I juiced one small beet and ohhh it was so so so pretty! Beautiful deep burgundy color. I poured it in - and in hindsight, will probably use it as some of the water required for the recipe, as it took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to harden/cook with the extra 1/8 cup of liquid.
But it turned out the pretties deep pink color, kind of like I've always WISHED my playdough would turn out, but I didn't want to use up the entire bottle of food coloring since those things are spendy to keep on replacing (thus, no replacement yet in my cuboard, lol).
I've been enjoying the pink color and my mind is busy figuring out all sorts of veggie colors:
Orange - carrots
Green - spinach
Purple - cabbage?
I'm thinking fruit will probably make it too sticky. Fun!
Oh, and here's my recipe (I always double it, as we love playdough in our house!):
1 c. flour
1 c. water
1/2 c. salt
2 T. cream of tarter (I buy this in bulk JUST for playdough)
1 T. oil
food coloring
Mix together in the pan, then cook on Medium, stirring fairly constantly especially towards the end. Store in fridge in an airtight container.
