Saturday, April 11, 2009

The little tyke is a you tuber

Who would have thunk it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMwu_gXK7Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfZVNv6w2E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynjIoymWHvU&feature=related

Its strange because these are the only things that he'll watch...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Mesa Grill : Blue and Yellow Corn Muffins

I tried to cook Mesa Grills blue and yellow corn muffins and I have to say they tasted pretty good. The recipe is pretty painful to follow, although I have to admit that the recipe itself says you can speed it up if you only use blue corn, which I tried for the second batch and it is indeed quicker.

They taste pretty good although my ones certainly do better with some butter and so I used some toasted pecan and honey butter. A recipe I ad-libbed from the same Mesa Grill cook book ( the actual recipe is toasted pecan and maple syrup butter ).

I would humbly suggest only doing the blue corn batter and perhaps double the measure of sweetcorn -- I liked the sweetcorn in the muffins and originally I thought there were too few... ( because of course the measure is divided into 12 when you make the muffins ).

I just now found a link to roughly the correct recipe...

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/blue-corn-muffins-recipe/index.html

He's Walking!

The big news around the ranch is the little man is walking! It ends up being a controlled stumble but he makes it work. It has changed things although not in the way that I expected. He is more mobile but not really that much, once he started crawling you had to keep a serious eye out. But now seeing him walk, makes him look like a real little man... a very interesting phycological difference.

Of course now that he can walk he does tend to pick things up and move them. Taking them from one place to another. Luckily the most interesting things he still can't reach. Interesting times!