Fido's Fabulous People Biscuits

Carley received a kid's cookbook from a friend (Wendy!) for Christmas. There are fun food recipes but also fun play recipes. One is a recipe for making Fido's Fabulous People Biscuits. In other words, dog treats cut with a gingerbread man cookie cutter.

Yesterday we made them.


The dough is made mostly of tomato juice, chicken bullion cubes and flour.


Then you roll them...


... and cut them just like regular cookies.


They look like regular cookies. I had to remind Carley not to eat the dough. Blech.


They cook in the oven for an hour. Then we let them sit in the cooling down oven for four hours! It wasn't the best plan with an impatient 5-year-old.


Carley loved making them. The dogs love eating them.

And last night we had a fantastic thunderstorm pass over our house. Carley was already in bed and Josh was headed that direction when Walt noticed lightning southeast of us. We went into the backyard to watch. The storm was moving fairly quickly and we got to see the thunderheads roll right over and passed us. The rain started and was coming down SO hard, I kept looking for hail.

I tried to grab a shot of lightning for the first time ever. This was my first shot and really the only decent one I got. I'd try to learn how to properly photograph it but I bet we don't have another storm like that for a few years. We don't have lightning like that around here much.