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“Some of the constituents of asparagus are metabolised and excreted in the urine, giving it a distinctive, mildly unpleasant odor. The smell is caused by various sulfur-containing degradation products (e.g. thiols and thioesters). Studies showed that about 40% of the test subjects displayed this characteristic smell; and a similar percentage of people are able to smell the odor once it is produced. There does not seem to be any correlation between peoples’ production and detection of the smell. The speed of onset of urine smell is rapid, and has been estimated to occur within 15-30 minutes from ingestion.”
I love asparagus
now playing: peaches - AA XXX
lots of food posts here..
chrissy is getting married and in that engagement blissful stage of looking at all the options and sent me links to some fabulous cakes:
this is totally a josh cake.. mr. junk food:
and words just can’t describe the coolness of this:
weekend update
it was a beautiful weekend again. super hot on saturday - 85! almost went swimming… but it was cold by the beaches - only 60, so we canceled our bike rides on the beach plans and instead ran a bunch of errands- i bought more star jasmine and planted it in my garden 
we did a lot of food shopping for cooking this week. i’m excited. we found a lot of yummy stuff.
we had a BBQ saturday with amritz and sarah and played his wii, that thing is soooo fun. we played bowling and some wario games. damien is totally freaked out by the wii though and he thinks we’re throwing the controller at him so he keeps barking at us.
sunday josh and i did more grilling, i made asparagus on the grill with skewers - salt, pepper & olive oil, it was delicious and we had roasted garlic marinated chicken that was super moist.
oh and on saturday the doorbell rings around like 1pm or so and Josh goes to get it and disappears for like 5 minutes so I go check it out and then in the driveway out the sliding door I see a bunch of packages laid out on the driveway of meat! and I look out the front yard and a guy is selling meat door-to-door! the magazine sales have been around.. but meat?! and it was 85 and he was laying it out on our driveway.. hrmm not so fresh then? but i hear it’s good meat.
now playing: the prestige
Long time no post!
There was a state of emergency declared in Buffalo last weekend due to the early 2 feet of heavy wet snow.. it pretty much wrecked a LOT of Buffalo’s trees. And power was out for 450,000 people.. trees took the power lines/cable lines/phone lines down. I think they got all the power back though within 5 days. Parents are all good now, but a lot of the trees are broken 
hopefully the trees survive and next spring bounce back.
Having more of a fall here in LA than in Buffalo.. well northern LA all the trees up here are changing colors
Been busy doing genealogy research. I’m on some kind of history kick.. Ancestry.com is great.
oh and i made the BEST focaccia yesterday.. i’m talking Maria’s Italian Kitchen focaccia… sooooo good! This ties in with the ancestry.com thing… my grandma’s maiden name means “cook’s apprentice” in Polish. 
Yum
I tried this new recipe with asparagus because I want to find new ways to cook it and it came out awesome. Josh didn’t like it because there’s parmesean cheese on it.. so i had to eat his share too.. but here it is:
and earlier this week Josh made my favoritest food ever.. i ate the left overs until Wednesday so I know I could probably eat it everyday of my life:
Best white pizza ever. The dough is the best part.. Josh makes it with a secret ingredient.. i think it’s corn meal.
Just called Amritz, SO going to a waterpark today.. and Ruben will probably come too. Yay
now playing: The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Gmelt)
