I love cities with a thriving street food culture. Seoul’s is particularly wonderful because on top of there being a wide variety of delicious foods, the stands in Gwangjang market come with heated benches, the likes of which I have never seen in the US. Imagine my surprise and delight when after hours of walking through the cold, snowy streets, I plop down on a bench for a late lunch and find […]
Maximiliano Diego | Salud Diario | April 11, 2014 Member of the Society for Public Health for Salamanca ( ADSP ) (Translated by Marie Huynh) I’m a doctor; a cardiologist, of the sort that puts those springs in patients when they suffer a heart attack. I love our work, but I recently left the hospital a little sadder than before. A patient, who had previously been admitted, returned with a second heart attack. Looking at […]
I love baked stuffed mushrooms. They’re easy to make and so good that there are never any leftovers. This is a fairly simple recipe and aside from the mushrooms, consists of things I always have available. Foodie tip: keep a stash of breadcrumbs and small pucks of goat cheese in the freezer for emergency appetizers. Ingredients: a large pack of mushrooms 1 egg 3-4 oz goat cheese 3-4 tbs breadcrumbs […]
I couldn’t sleep tonight so I made these sparkly little Space Invader sugar cubes. If I can get them to come out of the molds consistently without the legs breaking off, I think they would be fun to have around for a tea party. These are amazingly easy to make. All you need is sugar, water, and a mold. Fill the mold you want to use with sugar. That’s all […]
There are a lot of recipes that call for a lot of egg yolk but what do you do with the egg whites when you’re done? A friend suggested meringue and in my search of a good recipe for my first attempt, I came across this highly rated one for meringue mushrooms. Despite it being a little time consuming, what I love about this project is that because mushrooms are naturally […]
I love eating eggs in a frame, yolks slightly runny, with a twist of freshly ground pepper. It’s best with buttered toast cut into fun shapes, which makes breakfast feel like a special occasion. I bought the set of XO♥ cookie cutters for this purpose and have used them for little else. This is how I like to make them: Punch a hole out of the center of the slices of bread […]