Spaghetti

This posting is for Julie. A few months ago when I was at her house, she asked me if Tyler had ever had spaghetti. I looked at her as if she were crazy. I also said, "Babies can't have spaghetti." Well, Julie, here's the proof. Tyler loves spaghetti. We had to give him a bath right afterword too. His face was stained orange from the sauce. And since these pictures were taken, he's had spaghetti quite a few times.

Swimming in the back yard!

These girls are Tyler's cousins. From left to right it's Allie, Makayla, and of course, Tyler.

"I love to swim!"


"Look, I can stand!"

A few weeks ago, while I was at work, Cory took Tyler to his parents house so that he could go swimming in the backyard with his cousins. At first he was a little hesitant of the water, but once he got used to it, he loved it. It's been a really hot summer this year so it was good for Tyler to enjoy the water.

Update, update, update...who wants an update!!

Sorry for the lack of postings. We've been a little busy this summer with enjoying Tyler, working, doing stuff with family, and just having a relaxing summer. I'm also sorry that when I make a blog posting, I usually make a few diffferent postings. All in all though, I hope you enjoy all the new updates.

Mouseover of Dan's Grant and Blake Fix

I was playing around with comparing the differences between the original of this photo and the fixes Dan made and decided it would be easier with a mouseover, so here you go.

Cory and Tyler playing

Here are some cute pictures of Tyler and Cory playing. Tyler loves to be tossed up into the air. He just laughs and laughs.

HIVES.......oh my!

Last week Tyler had an ear-infectioni so the Dr. gave him amoxocillan(sorry about the spelling) and then he broke out into a rash on his stomach and back. The Dr. then changed his medicine tp something else, but the rash never went away. The Dr. thinks he may be allergic to penicillian. This week his rash got worse and so then we took him back to the Dr. yesterday. The good news is that Tyler doesn't have an ear infection anymore. The bad news is that now he's on prednosolne (sorry about he spelling again). He hates it. We have to make him take it. Poor guy. Here are a few pictures of his hives. He wouldn't hold still at all. But you can still see a little bit of them. He's doing much better today. The reddness has gone down. He still has a little rash, but it's not as bad as it was a few days ago.

Tyler has discoverd the toliet paper.....

Tyler has discoverd the toliet paper roll this week. I was in the bathroom getting beautified for my day when Tyler came crawling in. He sat on the floor behind me for awhile. When Tyler became quite I had too see what he was doing. And there he sat in the middle of toilet paper. He loves to pull on it and rip a few sheets off ata time and throw it in the air. He also likes to eat it, which I don't like. Now, every time we accidentally leave the bathroom door open he automatically crawls straight to the toilet paper. Ahhh...what a mess.

Yummy Dinner

What a handsome grill-master!!

Soo cute!

Ty likes the dutch oven potatoes the best!

Cory eating a big bite of chicken.

YUMMY!

After work one night I came home to Cory fixing a delicious meal on the grill. He grilled some chicken and had potatoes in the dutch oven. He then placed the chicken on top of a ceasar salad. Boy, was that ever so delicious. I love ceasar salad. The potatoes were good too. We've been doing a lot of cooking outside because our house gets hot. It's been fun experimenting out there and hanging out in the cooler evening.

Just Hanging Out!

The picture below reminds me of Brian's baby pictures. Doesn't this kind of resemble the picture of Brian on the rocking horse?? I may be way off, but Tyler does kind of look like Brian's baby pictures.

I thought I'd finally update our blog. Here is Tyler just hangin out in his high chair. He's eating fruit cocktail, one of his favorite foods. I think he likes it so much because he can feed himself. He also loves apple pancakes. I think they are quite delightful too.

Cory's Spot: $0.50 Steak!

For those of you who haven't watched Alton Brown's Good Eats on Food Network, you need to give it a try. Beware, though, AB is a geek at heart, and you'll know it the first time you see one of his teaching aides.

In any case, on a recent rerun of Good Eats, AB took plain old bottom round and a Jaccard meat tenderizer and made his own cube steak for Salisbury Steak and Chicken-Fried Steak and such. I decided I wanted to give this a try, so I bought a nice bottom round roast, cut it into 1/2" slices, Jaccarded the heck out of the slices, and froze it all for future use.

Well...I froze all but one piece. That one piece got seasoned with Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper and drizzled with Worchesterchesterchestershire Sauce and left to marinate for 30 min. or so. While that was getting happy, I preheated my new cast-iron grill pan, and then I introduced the steak and the grill to one another. A few minutes and a flip, a turn, and a flip later (to get the groovy cross-hatch grill marks), my steak was done.

It was just a snack, so I had it on its own - no veggies or tubers to get in the way. Ok...I did pour some A1, but that ended up going to waste - the steak was a bit chewy (What do you expect from $1.48/lb. beef? The Jaccard can only do so much!), but nice and juicy, with a warm pink center and a nice sear on the outside. It didn't need any extra sauce.

Now I know this isn't a recipe, per sé, but it is a mighty tasty way to make use of a very cheap cut of beef. Oh, and cast iron...I won't get started on cast iron right now, but suffice it to say, I haven't used the old stainless steel pots and pans any more then necessary for quite a while now!

Thanks to Travis and Melanie for getting me to give the new Diet Berries and Cream Dr. Pepper a try and to David for the idea of using the mini Santoku as a steak knife.