Saturday, October 27, 2007

Corn Salad

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup lime juice

  • 1 Tbsp. honey

  • 1 jalapeno chili pepper, seeded and finely chopped

  • 3 Tbsp. snipped fresh cilantro or 1 Tbsp. snipped fresh mint

  • 1/4 tsp. salt

  • 6 fresh ears of corn , husked and cleaned; or 3 cups frozen whole kernel corn, thawed

  • 1 1/2 cups baby spinach leaves

  • 1 large tomato, seeded and chopped

  • 3/4 cup seeded, chopped cucumber

Directions

1. In large bowl whisk together lime juice and honey until well combine
2. Stir in jalapeno pepper, cilantro, and salt
3. Carefully cut corn kernels off cobs
4. Add to lime juice mixture
5. Stir in spinach, tomato, and cucumber. Serve immediately. Makes 9(2/3 cup) serving

Start to finish

20 minutes

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Kiss On My List

Artist: Hall & Oates

Monday, October 22, 2007

Strawberry-Mango Milk Shake

(From: Better Homes and Gardens)
Frozen Yogurt Pie


Ingredients


* 2 cups halved fresh strawberries
* 1 cup chopped mango
* 1-1/2 cups vanilla frozen yogurt
* 1/4 cup milk
* Sliced fresh strawberries
* Sliced mango

Directions

1. Place the 2 cups berries, chopped mango, frozen yogurt, and milk in a blender container. Cover and blend until smooth. Divide mixture between 2 tall glasses.

2. Top each serving with strawberry and mango slices. Makes 2 servings.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Problem 11

Consider a connected graph G whose edges have distinct costs. Denote: T1 the minimum spanning tree of G, and T2 the second cheapest spanning tree of G.
Question: T1 and T2 differ in how many edges?

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Problem 10

Given sequence: r1, r2, ..., rk such that: 0< ri <=1 and sum( ri ) <= n . Group ri's into groups of zize at most 1. How many groups will you use?

Sunday, October 7, 2007

So Far Away

Artist: Carol King

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Problem 9

"What is the number of all trees on n points with exactly n-r endpoints? "