my kitchen assistants

Up until today, Gavin and Elizabeth have only ate food from my kitchen.

They are getting bigger, so today,

they learned how to make a family favorite,

salad crackers.

My grandmother made these at least 30 years ago. I know it was then because son Bobby ate them when he was a toddler and he is 30.

We have been eating them ever since.

Salad crackers are oyster/soup crackers moistened with salad oil so the seasoning mixture of dill, onion and garlic powder, and dry ranch dressing mix will stick.

The grandbabies had fun making and eating them.

And just a few crackers flew out of the bowl onto the floor.

salad crackers are popular with everyone in this family.

We all like them on top of salad instead of croutons. I think most recipes for these seasoned crackers call for 1 or 2 bags of crackers but I always make a big batch of 4 bags.

This makes a lot but they won't last long here,

especially since we have 2 more salad cracker fans.

Daughter Nina's latest project

Nina saw some very cute and very expensive fabric playhouses that fit over card tables on Etsy. At their home, the play area is in a nook beside the dining room and Nina wanted to use their tall dining table as the base.
She used low-cost brown sheets for all the walls and roof. Her big shortcut was using the finished edges of the sheets as the bottom of the walls so she would have less sewing.
She used fabric from my stash for the curtains, window boxes and door. _the door is not quite tall enough and will need to be adjust though.

The windows have clear vinyl in them, she bought it at Hobby Lobby and it looks good but my machine did not like sewing over it.

Pretty cute isn't it? And it can easily be moved and folded up at meal time.