Seattle Soup Swap

Hello, welcome! I know you’re here to read about soup swap, but stick around – it’s more than just soup at Nerd’s Eye View. You might also enjoy: To Venice for Lunch You Are Here While My Uke Gently Weeps or, who knows, maybe not. There’s stuff about cooking seafood, local and international adventures, ukulele …


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Fish Wednesday: Rockfish and Red Wine Edition

Rockfish is a type of bass. It’s got a firm white flesh that does well in the oven and you really have to try to overcook it. It’s good in heavy red sauces and stews, though I suppose it would be a good chowder fish, too. I roasted the zuchinni with garlic first. Then, I …


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Late Fall Cleaning Tips

It might be time for you to toss that Halloween pumpkin into the yard waste bin. If you can afford to buy a swank new flat screen monitor, you can afford to recycle the old one properly instead of kicking it to the curb where it will be ruined by the rain. A few minutes …


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There’s No Place Like It

Welcome to the next Nerd’s Eye View podcast. It includes three stories about home. In the first segment, Julia remembers home with a song. In the second segment, Jesse asks about the words to the Czech national anthem. In the third (read by me) Marilyn talks about finding home in an unexpected place. The music …


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While My Ukulele Gently Weeps

Over the last week we’ve had a sad little storm in a tiny teacup. My uke playing brothers and sisters have been duking it out over a message requesting support for the Ukes for Troops program. The problem wasn’t the request for support or the program – I don’t think any of us would argue …


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Five things about Borat

“All other countries have inferior potassium!” Borat’s Khazak compatriots might be dorky, but some of the Americans in this movie, hoo boy. Yikes. I totally get the technique of letting a joke run for a long time, but that doesn’t always mean it works. Maybe we should laugh more at the outrageousness of racism when …


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