Make Naan in Less than Five Minutes with Two Ingredients!. . .Lazy Man's Naan

Okay, after my rant in my post from the other day, I hope you don't think I'm completely industrious every waking second. I am kinda...REALLY...lazy at times.

Here is one of those times.

Have you ever actually made naan? You really need to if you want to appreciate the ease of today's recipe! It takes a while to do the real process correctly. I always end up burning my naan or not letting it rise properly or something. Something always goes wrong for me.

Honestly. . .I'm a white girl. . .and that's probably why.

You only need two things to make this lazy man's naan. And these two ingredients are items that you already tend to accumulate (if you don't actually end up throwing them away): 

Flour tortillas and Garlic dipping sauce from Papa John's!

If you are Indian. . .Look away!

Okay, so you know how you get a hankering for tacos, so you buy all the ingredients? Then, you make tacos. . .And then you still have a butt load of tortillas left?

Likewise, if you are like me, you tend to accumulate a wealth of garlic sauces from "Pizza Night." (You can also use any other garlic sauce packets. Like. . .from QT for instance.)

Don't throw them away! They make for some really yummy naan!

So, the directions (if you can't already figure this out) are to (1) pour a little sauce into your frying pan, (2) heat the pan, (3) heat both sides of the tortilla until you get nice little brown spots on them (no black spots!). 

Mmmm! Tastes almost like the real thing and it'll take you five minutes or less! (Again, apologizes to the entire nation of India.) So, do something else with your time (like...do a DIY project!).

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Sunday School Craft - Jesus Heals the Blind Man Mask

My template originally came from one I found on Pinterest, but I tweaked it. Your Sunday School class will love this "Blind Man" mask! This one is really interactive and illustrative of the story, which you shall see if you continue reading. . .

You will need: cardstock, brad fasteners, scissors, an Exacto-Knife, and crayons.

If you scroll to the bottom you will see how I tweaked the original pattern. For the frowny "blind" face, I covered his eyes with the Bible verse that tells the story of Jesus healing the blind man. I also added a half circle shape, so you could know where to cut on his face to get the right shape.

Next, I cut out the happy face.

Then, with a pen, I poked through the hole in the frowny part. . .

and through the happy face. . .

Next, I cut the eyes of the happy face out with an Exacto-Knife. You should probably do this part ahead of time for the children in your class.

Then, I colored both parts.

Then, I stuck them together with a brad fastener. (Front)

(Back)

Two finished masks! You can attach popsicle sticks to the bottom if you want, but the reason I didn't was because the frowny part stays up better if you hold the mask on both sides.

This is the part that I find REALLY cool!

With these masks you can actually BE the blind man!

First, you can't see. . .

Then, you flip the blind part up and you can see! Talk about interactive learning!

UPDATE: For some reason, everyone is confused about the templates.....These are the templates below, People! You just right click on them, copy image, and then paste them into your favorite word processor or paint program and hit "print." Alternatively, you can right click on them, save the image to your desktop, open the image and select "print."

I have tried to comment as such, but for some reason Blogger won't let me comment on my own posts....no idea why. Anyways, there is no reason for everyone to be so confused.

Templates:

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Elephant Man Hat and Cowl

Sometimes, when you are a maker of things, you get asked to make the weirdest stuff at the strangest times. I wasn't planning on blogging today, but when I woke up to my sister's calling and asking me to make her an Elephant Man hat and cowl for a play she and her husband are directing. . .I realized I would be blogging today after all. . .Yes, Sister, you let me stay at your house for a year rent-free. . .I guess I can make you an Elephant Man hat. . .

This is the original one that is in some museum somewhere. Until this morning, I had no idea what it even was! I mean, I knew he wore a thing over his face, but I didn't know there was a specific hat. Learn something new every day. . .

Here is another view:

Here is mine:

I went to Goodwill, but I couldn't find any brown velvet, so I bought a pair of brown tweed pants. I used a pillow case for the cowl.

I used the lining of the pants as the lining in the hat.

If you look at the original again, you will see it has some kind of ribbon around the bottom half. Well, obviously, I didn't have that either, so I just sewed around and around the bottom half with white thread. I think it gives it a rustic feel and it at least alludes to the orginal.

If you look closely, you can see that I put a bit of thread down the middle of the eye hole. Having done theatre myself, I know how much an actor needs to see on stage, so I cut the eye hole bigger than the original. To keep the hole from gaping open, I tied a bit of thread down the middle of it.

A close up of the eye hole.

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