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More new recipes, and another good find. Chicken, beans, chili, and a cabbage salad on fried corn tortillas. Add some avocados, and chow down.

Purplicious

Crunchy

Beany goodness

It's on the list

Ty Cobb Salad: So Bad, yet So good

Christina is a Cobb Salad fan. Me, not so much. When she made the ingredients and lined them up on the plate, she said she felt like it was going to be, well, meh. And it was a lot of working putting it together. Plus we had this on Thursday, so it meant she had to shovel it in before school.

Then we ate it.

Verdict: Amazingly good.

The dressing has blue cheese in it: you could eat a shoe if it were smothered in it. And there's bacon. Need I say more? No, but the farm fresh lettuce and spinach sealed the deal. Home run -- and it'll spike the third baseman on the way past because he threw it out the last time through the line up and then insult the fan in the third row who has a ghastly looking wife -- because it's that good. It can get away with it.

 

All the good things in life

 

So close. So beautiful

 

Strike Three! For hunger, that is...

Shaking up the Menu: Creole Stylez

Christina and I decided that we needed to kick the current menu rotations up a notch. The same old same old had to be broken -- So I'm proud to announce the return of 60 recipes, the most delicious segment of the Ashford Living Blog experience.

Creole Stir-Fry

This was was surprisingly good. Started slow but after you got used to what it was asking you to taste, it was nice. Sweet, Savory (lots of cream) and spicy, although next time we're adding more hot pepper flakes.

 

Shrimp added a nice briny flavor

 

It was a colorful dish

 

 

With the return of the CSA -- we;re getting delicious salads as well.

 

I go to the Lake

You do indeed Robby. And when you're there, you dig in the sand and ride on the horsey.

 

Exercise Time!

 

 

One...

 

Two...

 

Three...

 

One!

 

Follow as we Ride!

I Dig Now -or- You are my Sun Flower

He calls it "Robby's Shovel". Seeing that he enjoys it, I figured we'd take some time to plant the sunflowers we grew from seed this spring. Plus it's just cute to see tiny people do grown up things. And watch them spray their mothers with the hose because mothers are trusting people and never think their baby would do such a thing. Well, he will.

Keep the blade clean

Right here looks good

 

Get in deep!

By the Power of Gray Skull!

Time to plant

Let's water them in

That looks good

All Done!

Daily Happy: Shameless Dad Blog

Robby's becoming a great little boy. He's talking in sentences, asking for things he likes, signing to people who have no idea what he's doing, and taking his diaper off to pee on the floor. These are things that happen.

Explore my great backyard

In the recently mowed field behind the house

http://youtu.be/pm6v05F0Z6Q

Checking out the goats at We-Lik-It farm in Abington

"Riding" A bike at the farm, post ice cream of course.

http://youtu.be/B2za-aYK6bQ

New mower from Granny Davis, and a little Toga action with his Ashford 300th Anniversary Shirt

Looks like a little statue

"Where's Robby?"

"I can't see you!"

"Boo!"

Yeah-- I'm famous

Coming down the mountain

Robby kept saying "Mountain" when we climbed to the top of Boston Hollow last weekend. We've done this hike a bazillion times. but it's still a winner. Just the right length (about 1/2 hour) and just the right climb (about 300 feet vertical). And you can't beat the view.

If that ain't the prettiest lady you've ever seen...

Mommy and Tubbs enjoying a break after the hike up. My back got a bit sweaty carrying the backpack. Robby's been packing on the pounds. 

Keeping it clean

That is a nice view. Of Rhode Island, though.

"Get out of the way, mom. Geez"

"Much Better"

The boys.