flaccus and I cooked this last night and it was very tasty.

From The Best Recipe: 2nd Edition

Serves 4 to 6

One teaspoon of red pepper flakes will give the sauce a little kick, but add more to suit your taste.

1 lb large Shrimp (41-40 per lb), Peeled and deveined ( Read more... )

Friday was my much anticipated cook-off with Rosalyn "Rock you like a Hurricane" Rombauer. Here were my entries:

Soup (Consomme Celestine):


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Game Feed

by Nathan Smith '05On the first Saturday of Spring Break, Grandpa drove up to my apartment at 7:50 a.m. to tell me I was already missing the potato peeling. He anxiously rushed me to the car. Today was one of Reinbeck, Iowa's most important social gatherings: The Isaac Walton League's annual "Game Feed." By six p.m. people had converged ( Read more... )

He struck again.

There is another Nathaniel Smith. He is also from Cedar Rapids and he is my age. Though I've never met him, occasionally while growing up I would get his swimming pool pass returned to me or some similar innocent mix up.

Interestingly enough he's turned up during my current visit to Cedar Rapids. This is not me, but my ( Read more... )

In news that may be surprising to some of you:

I'm in Nashville.

My sister laurelzs now has a livejournal.

This refers to my previous update:

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This message is from my friend Danielle from the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute (BBSI) in Richmond, Virginia.

Steph/Stephie/Stephanie
Refers to Stephanie Slusher a girl from Rebecca Blanchard's home town of Lynchburg. Not an actual member of the BBSI, she became associated with ( Read more... )

The following is the transcript of a phone message I received at roughly 6 am from a Durham, NC lab assistant and mother of one. It's most enjoyable if you read it aloud with a slight southern accent.

This is the beginning of an extremely detailed message ( Read more... )

Written by my sister: Laurel "the funnier one" Zmolek-Smith

Feliz Navidad to our amigos and familia!

I, Laurel, 24, am still in Puerto Rico. I quit my job at AMPI in August and am now finishing my MA in ESL (English as a Second Language). I will complete my degree in July and thanks to my mother’s craftiness in managing to get my boyfriend to ( Read more... )

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)@(o <---- Turtle top view

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.* <----- Turtle very far away next to giant statue of an asterisk


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