Beer Battered Fish Recipe

Not bad!
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/beer_battered_fish_tacos_with_tomato_avocado_salsa.html

• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
• 1/3 cup beer
• 8 ounces tilapia fillet, cut crosswise into 1-inch wide strips
• 2 teaspoons canola oil

1. Combine flour, cumin, salt and cayenne in a medium bowl. Whisk in beer to create a batter.
2. Coat tilapia pieces in the batter. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Letting excess batter drip back into the bowl, add the fish to the pan; cook until crispy and golden, 2 to 4 minutes per side. Serve the fish with tortillas and salsa.

Grocery Bag for 2 year old Birthday Boy

Our 2 year old friend is having a kitchen themed birthday and I made him this little grocery bag. It's my favorite of my bags yet. I used the good ribbon that I bought a while back for a puppet theater (it was the wrong color) which I think just made the bag.

Sea Shell Project

Oma sent along some beautiful sea shells from the beach and the moment Lillian saw them she exclaimed "I have to make a project!" So we talked about the different ways to hold them onto something and agreed that modeling clay would probably work best. Because I didn't have any on hand I was able to convince her to wait for a day. This morning I looked up a recipe and came across this sawdust clay Well, sawdust is something we have plenty of around here. So we whipped up a batch of sawdust clay & Lillian put her shells in it. As she started to place them we noticed that the clay color was very similar to a beach- how perfect!
The sawdust:



Ok, it sorta looks like a cookie too. But as Phoebe can tell you, it doesn't taste any good.