Jazzfest is here. Mango freeze, Crawfish Monica and Crawfish bread… Last weekend my father came down to celebrate his 66th birthday and we danced in sunshine to Sting, Rod Stewart, Sweet Crude, Big Freedia, Bonnie Raitt and David Byrne. The house burned down and after three days of smoothies and bran muffins we have risen […]
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Spicy Smoothies and Vegetable Pun Contest with Vegan Cookbook Giveaway
Just in time for Mardi Gras, I had the chance to review a nudie vegan cookbook Squeeze Life by Karliin Brooks, “Your guide to the best bare body at any age.” This book is full of colorful, gorgeous foodie photos, pun after pun after pun, and has a casual, often profane narrator. The prose reads […]
Pledge to Mind the Gap – MegaFood Smoothie Time
It is well known that doctors, in particular, residents-in-training, have some of the worst health habits of all the land. We walk around with acute kidney injuries from daily dehydration, and when we finally get a chance to catch up on eating/hydrating, we dump cans of caffeinated diet sodas down the hatch chased by fistfuls […]
A Smoothie Bible, with Guest Review from my Smoothie Queen
Knowing my true place in the scheme of things, a veritable smoothie novice, I deferred the deep analysis of what I call the Smoothie Bible, the “300 Best Blender Recipes Using Your Vitamix” by Robin Asbell, to my mother, the Smoothie Queen. In New Orleans we have Smoothie King, but in Portland, OR, we all […]
My Favorite Call Smoothie to Fight Hangriness – Healthy Skoop
How to keep from getting hangry when on-call. Healthy Skoop. The cafeteria in my hospital is not open overnight, so woe is me when I am working a night call shift because the only other available free food source is the Resident Snack Room, a den of dietary sin with Hot Pockets, Lays chips, Rice […]