Steph and G Day 4

Rudolph's carrot soup and Christmas toast,
slow cookers rock! I cut up the onion, because I think they are slimy and slippy, G was able to do the carrots, rule being 'if you are not cutting straight down on the board, Stop!' Everything else G could assemble herself because everything is cold, stock, lentils, pepper, water, happy few minutes stirring it around like a cauldron then lid on and turn the knob to low, forget about it for a day, yay!   My experience is that soup is deemed more fun if you have a little ladle to serve it out with, and something to dip, occasional reminders to actually eat the good, good soup can be required however.
We read a book where the child detectives made secret messages with milk which when the paper was ironed, revealed what they had written. This inspired us to try milk inked Rudolphs on white bread expecting to toast it and see the brown reindeer appear, bit of food colouring for nose.  On toasting, Rudolph stayed pale while the rest of the toast browned! Who knew. We were pleased, although appreciating others may find Rudolph a bit turin shroudesque in the picking out.