All is right with the world (in my little New Orleanian Mardi Gras bubble; note also that in the la la land of residency I really don’t have much time to belabor the weight of daily news). We have been trotting out to some of the early season parades, last night was Cleopatra, and we […]
Tag: bulldog
Sabores de Cuba Ropa Vieja to #StopDiabetes
I swear I did not time the publishing of this post to occur in the wake of the late Fidel Castro. I love Cuban food, pure and simple. And I’m thrilled there is now a healthy Cubano cuisine cookbook. November is American Diabetes Month, and so I am celebrating with a series of cookbooks the […]
Sicilian Caponata to #StopDiabetes
Ok diabetes, allow me to blow your mind. Here is a recipe that is both Italian and rife with chocolate that is made especially for you. November is American Diabetes Month, and so I am celebrating with a series of cookbooks the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has published. But here’s my attitude, as a physician, […]
Lasagna Soup and Olympic Belly Rubs
It occurred to me today that we missed a major window of opportunity with Izzy. She has this new thing—when she sees me coming from a distance, she comes up along side me, catches stride and then lunges a few feet ahead in a swan dive/belly up maneuver. How can you not stop to stoop […]
Casarecce for Fortitude and Fortune
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues, read the fortune cookie I opened in December of last year, right after finishing a grueling ICU rotation. And something like a stuck prayer, what do I find in the bottom of my call-night chucks after nine months, just before I lace them up to […]
Herbed Butternut Squash Pizza with a side of Jane Bowles
What I especially love in food and drink, that which is complex and pleasurable on many levels, is also what draws me to the writing of Jane Bowles—her style might as well be the umami of the literary world. Reading Two Serious Ladies would be an archaeological dig to a psychoanalyst. What I loved about […]
Trout with Olive and Sundried Tomato Tapenade and Love, Love, Love
So there is this thing called unconditional love. Like when your dog runs wild around a muddy yard and rubs her face in the chickens’ poop and promptly returns to smear the side of your new white and black striped Beetlejuice Hammer pants with mudpoop du jour. And then you wipe the poop off her […]
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 […]
Things to Grill for the Fourth of July
Happy Fourth of July! Grill, grill, grill! There are few things that make me feel more American than standing over a barbeque, basting corn with spiced butter and charring a few chorizos. Perhaps a bulldog festooned in patriotic boat parade beads adorned with an American flag. Another good one I’ve included below is flat-iron steak […]
Galette de Rois and Balm
Making my way again through the book that may very well be the best work of literature produced in our country in the last fifty years, Gilead, the very book an attempt to answer Jeremiah’s question with blessed less certainty and blessed more sincerity than the sung spiritual. Yes, there is a balm, and there […]