My brother Dave is funnier than Jimmy Fallon. At my wedding, he began the tradition of the pre-toast. Here, I believe, he perfects it. I am SO proud and hope this goes viral so that I can say I am the sister of the pre-toast guy. My favorite part of the clip is the ditzel […]
Let my misadventure yesterday with a fire extinguisher, Not A Drill, prompt you now to go find the red canister where you are and thoroughly visualize Pulling the pin, Aiming while standing six feet away, and Spraying while Sweeping Side to side (PASS). Why? Because an enormous flame rising from a pot of greasy chili […]
Why yes, I have recolonized my gastrointestinal tract, and likely my genitourinary tract as well, thanks for asking. Project Yogurt Notes on a first attempt to make my own bacteria-ridden milk product. Follow me to my Petrie dish of flavor. I started with 4 cups of 2% milk, which I boiled in a high-edged saucepan […]
Good morning. Stop Everything. Whatever you were up to in the kitchen, cereal, oatmeal, eggs, bacon, what have you—just stop. Find the almost-molding cauliflower head calling for help from the back of your fridge. She wants to be a breakfast fritter. Make her vegetable dream come true. Cauliflower and Cumin Fritters with Lime Sauce Adapted […]
Before the coming Season of Birth commences on Monday (aka, my OB rotation), I made salmon cakes for a fancy kiss-KP-and-freetime-goodbye breakfast. Plus, the dish seemed a thematic bridge between the recent holidays spent in the Pacific Northwest, a hotbed of superior salmon cuisine, and the study of brave female spawning which I shall presently […]
Because yesterday was not only Thanksgiving but the start of Hanukkah, per my usual style, around midnight on Thanksgiving-eve, I had an epiphany to change what to bring to our friends’ houses for Thanksgiving dinner. Knishes! I had heard on NPR that there is a nationwide Knish shortage because of a factory fire in NY, which prompted me […]
Lately I did ponder, with good reason in the ER, the differential diagnosis for olfactory hallucinations. I came up with the usual suspects: temporal lobe seizures, head injury causing subdural hematoma, brain tumor, severe sinusitis, or stroke. I came home from the ER shift and realized that perhaps I had missed one important item on […]
A toast to the first week of neurology after which I am proud to report that I am batting a thousand in my lumbar puncture record. Three for three glistening champagne spinal taps. I credit the success to having had a surgery rotation preceding—my hand has been steadied to some degree from holding things far […]
Okay, not bread. But if chips are likened to bread, than guacamole is equivalent to butter. This may have been my first experience ever touching an avocado in any meaningful way. And by that I mean with the intention to eat—nothing romantic or otherwise. I made some conjectures about avocado skin color and quality of […]
I’ve been steeped in bread over here, as well as in Italian poetry. The cosmic collision of the two, along with an overage of tomatoes in the refrigerator, resulted in an epiphany: I could be making bruschetta. Bruschetta Adapted from Emeril Lagasse’s recipe Ingredients 20 (1/2-inch) slices French or Italian bread 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive […]