So excited to be in Oakland, California this weekend to bear witness to and bestow blessings upon the wedding of my brother-in-law and his bride. As she harkens from South Carolina, the whole mood of the proceedings is warm and syrupy. With this new family, and my beloved in-laws, I feel like I’ve found a […]
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Pane di Como ala Freud
One reason I enjoy psychiatry so much is because my poetic sensibility makes me a natural at the Freud game. I have no problem finding associations to fit Freudian slips. Latest case being the attempt at this recipe. I “accidentally” made it into a double-triple batch because I “misread the instructions.” While spending the extra […]
Slow Cooker Bread– Psych.
My bulldog is exhibiting signs of regression, and I’m wondering how much of this has to do with me. She chewed up KP’s ultra-marathon hat this week and ate a package of Post-It notes that were sitting next to my psychiatry study books. Usually stoic, Izzy has been whimpering and licking my face like a […]
Day of the Dead Onion Bread
Happy Day of the Dead. Having the day off, I decided to celebrate the holiday spending an hour or two in corpse pose. Izzy joined me and snored loudly. Also, on the Day of the Dead, I’ve been dwelling on my beloveds departed, which makes me tearful. So I went for the onions instead of […]
Moroccan Butternut Squash Soup
Every autumn I impulse-buy a couple of squashes. I can’t stand it, they make me giggle. Gourds are the most Muppety of all vegetables. They just delight me, and so I absently put them in the cart. Once home, what to do with several pounds of earthen tubers? Squash them, of course. Halloween is the […]
Dialectical Brownie Therapy
I’ll admit it. Sometimes I eat brownies for breakfast. If they happen to be out, and I’m skidding through the kitchen on the whirlwind path to get dressed and upright on the moped and into the hospital, I’ll grab a brownie and chase it with a pot of coffee. I’m getting help. Actually, I’ve invented […]
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I have come to an important fashion verdict in my late twenties. It is only a good idea to wear trendy high heeled shoes if, and only if, you have every last scrap of yourself together. If you think flashy shoes are going to serve as a distractor from the sloppy squalor of the duck […]
Cajun Poutine
Oh Lord, here we have a taste. “Taste” in this case needs no prepositional phrase, no simile. This dish is perfect, it is a heart attack on a plate, and it is as Cajun as it gets. This dish opened a tunnel into the future through which I can see Mardi Gras, I can smell […]
Xichuan Garlic Bread
This morning I am shindigging and James Brown-sliding in socks across the kitchen floor. Celebrate! Finished up another shelf exam yesterday afternoon! As I dance, the instrumental percussion through my speakers is being audibly supplemented by none other than my cervical and thoracic vertebrae—clicking and hissing after having been locked tight in study-mode. This week […]
Pumpkin Spice Challah Back At Me
The tire popped on my moped two weeks ago as I sped out of the Johnny Mango parking lot. Not my finest hour. A chivalrous man came to my rescue on the side of the road and helped me to wheel the scooter into Kwik Trip for free air. He then proceeded to fill it […]