Probably my favorite thing to do with leftover eggs…. I especially love to serve them on a special egg-shaped plate with 12 indentations, one for each deviled egg.
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Something Fishy
A short and sweet post this week. It’s holiday time, and I’m on vacation.
Still, as my ever-observant sister pointed out this morning, there’s something very fishy about products labeled as buttery, chocolaty, creamy, and so on. Those words are a way to make something seem like else, something it really is not. Real food doesn’t end in a “y.”
Except for celery.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Veggie Frittata To Go
Here’s my slightly embellished version of a lovely recipe from Lauren at Eat Drink and Be Hopeful. Enjoy your spring eggs, and do your best to get ones with deep yellow-orange yolks that sit up high on the egg whites like little sentries perched up high! You can be assured that the deeper the yellow-orange color, the more nutritious the eggs and the happier the chickens who laid them.
Girl Scouts and Keebler Cookies
I was a Girl Scout. I went to camp. I wore a sash covered with badges. I sold cookies. But I am no longer 12 years old. In one memorable scene from the movie The Addams Family, young Wednesday Addams asks the uniformed adolescent ringing the bell on her front door if the cookies she is selling are made with real Girl Scouts. Well, Wednesday, I would say that yes, in a way they are. Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Cinnamon-Chocolate Walnuts
This nutritious and delicious dessert comes to YHIOYP courtesy of Wendy Bazilian @eatmovebe and at wendybazilian.com, author of The SuperFoods Rx Diet. She calls this a super-easy recipe that you can adapt to your own tastes. It’s a simple recipe, with nuts and chocolate to nourish and satisfy your heart, mind, and taste buds! If you’re planning on a special dessert for a special dinner, this one is a great choice.
Extending Your Health Span
I heard a great concept this week: the “health span.” It’s not exactly your lifespan, but rather the length of time you live in good health. So if you live to be 85, but spend the last 10 years of your life in declining health, then your lifespan may have been 85, but your health span was 75. Now let’s apply this concept to populations instead of individuals, because that’s where you see how we can make a real difference. Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Springtime Pea Soup
Whenever I enter the home of my friend Deena there is always something remarkable burbling on the stove. She says that she adapted this soup from the Barefoot Contessa, but I think it’s equally likely that Ms. Contessa gets her best ideas from Deena.
The Healthiest Way to Eat
An important article called “Can We Say What Diet is Best for Health?,” by David Katz and Stephanie Meller from Yale’s School of Public Health, was published in the scientific literature this week, and James Hamblin wrote a story about it for the Atlantic. He titled it “Science Compared Every Diet, and the Winner is Real Food.” You know, I would have edited out the word “Real” and called it simply “Food.” Then I would have reviewed for the reader the differences between Food and manufactured calories. Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Asparagus Leek Soup
This extremely elegant recipe comes from the incomparable Mark Bittman, at Kitchen Express and the NY Times. Enough said. Continue reading
Discipline Is Remembering What You Want
In the weeks prior to starting medical school, my brother-in-law gave me a small card with a calligraphed message: Discipline is remembering what you want. I soon affixed it to the wall of my new study carrel where it remained until, years later, I passed it along to a friend who needed it more than I.
Discipline is remembering what you want. What do you want? What do I want? Continue reading