All things purple

My favorite preschooler wants to be a dragon when she grows up (last time I asked her, she thought that would be when she's about 15 and after she has been a spider monkey for a while) and she wants to have purple scales when she does become a dragon, so we've been trying out purple veggies lately. First up was purple cabbage slaw with ginger dressing, which Addy helped to stir for us. Mommy and Daddy thought was pretty yummy, and Addy ate a couple of bites. Next was purple potatoes with cheese sauce, which Addy did not care for at all for some reason. What she did enjoy about the purple potatoes was getting to play with a few pieces while I cooked the rest of them. When she got bored with that I added a small bowl of oobleck and let her "cook" them together, which gave me just enough time to get the rest of our dinner cooked. (Oobleck and its home chemistry brethren are the secret reasons why people have kids. It's socially acceptable to play with the non-Newtonian solid that is cornstarch+water if you're doing so with a child. All by yourself, though, and its kind of embarrassing.)