Day: August 4, 2017

Rainbow Slaw

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Rainbow Slaw

You’ll bring nearly all the colors of the rainbow to your next barbecue or picnic with this colorful summer slaw! It features unexpected veggies like celery root, which will help it stand out from the rest of the coleslaw crowd.

Ingredients:

  • 1 celery root
  • 1 package baby rainbow carrots
  • 2 cups shredded red cabbage
  • 1/4 cup vegan mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon agave nectar
  1. Shred the celery root and carrots using the grater attachment of a food processor. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, lemon juice, mustard, and agave nectar. Add the carrot mixture, along with the shredded red cabbage. Toss to combine.

You can serve the slaw right away, or refrigerate up to a day ahead.

 

How Strong Is Paper?

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Strong Paper (5)

This quick lesson on engineering was an absolute delight, for kids and grown ups both. A lot of Travis’s toys are packed up due to an upcoming move to a new home, but we still have items to play with. To wit, all we needed for this experiment was computer paper and books. The question was: just how strong was our paper?

First, I asked Travis simply to fold a couple of sheets of paper into a tent shape – could that hold up a book?

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No way! Immediate collapse.

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Now we needed to try something more structurally sound. Wrap three sheets of paper around cans, and tape to seal. Slide out the cans.

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Set up the three sheets of paper like columns (those ancient Greeks were onto something…). I asked Travis to start piling on the books, and to his absolute delight, the paper remained standing. We couldn’t believe how big our pile grew – 3 books, 4 books, 5 books…

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We had laid on about 15 of slender volumes when we decided to really test things.

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It wasn’t until we added a fat hardcover book that the paper buckled and the whole pile collapsed – to Travis’s delight!

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Needless to say, even I was impressed with how much weight the paper held. This activity is guaranteed fun, whether or not your little engineer grasps all of the concepts involved.