What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? I was handed off to the nuns within days of being born. No hugs and skin time or visitors to oggle at a window pointing at a little human in a pink blanket, none of those things most wanted children get. The nuns named…
Unexpected Lessons Learned
Francis & Mary October 17, 1959 The greatest love affair I’ve ever witnessed was not a ‘made for TV’ marriage, it was the one I grew up watching. My parents, Francis and Mary, would have been married 40 years in 1998, the year Mom died. In the last few months I’ve spent a lot of…
Annual Update
December 7, 2022 – I turn 55 Wow although this year feels like it kind of stood still, was fairly uneventful, and I didn’t have any big time adventures…I’m kind of glad it’s over and a new one starts today. This year challenged me with wanting to get stronger – I didn’t drop any more…
Tempeh experiment
The one thing I can say about learning to cook and eat clean is that embracing new foods is a blessing. Tempeh is a traditional Indonesian food made from fermented soybeans. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. Many people use this as a…
aDRESSing Grief
I often equate most of my medical issues to the first full blown autoimmune attack. It was April of 1998 when I sat on the edge of my bed listening to my Mom telling me that she was going to die. The very next morning my eyes were completely swelled shut and I physically held…
Being a Lab Rat
If you would have told me in high school that I would one day wish I could go to medical school…I would have given you a look of complete disagreement. Now…at 54 I really wish I could go to medical school. I have been involved with an ongoing study at UB in the dermatology department…
Grandma knew…
My birthday is December 7th. In 2019 I had a doctors appointment with my main guy Damian. I was in a weird mood and said to him…dude, you haven’t given me any shit about gaining almost all of the weight back that I lost when I was super sick. He looked me right in the…
5 year update
In Oct of 2016 I was diagnosed with a super rare autoimmune disease called pemphigus vulgaris. This was a life changing moment because for the first time ever…I Googled mortality rate. It said 5-10 years after diagnosis. The data was outdated and I had no way of knowing that, but it has been updated since….
Seared scallops with avocado sauce
Dr. Hyman cookbook, What the Heck Should I Cook, page 177 has a delightful recipe for seared scallops with an avocado sauce. For the ACTUAL recipe click: Recipe. I was at a local meat market a few days back and saw these beautiful sea scallops in their freezer. I had to bring them home. Last…
Anti-aging Asparagus Soup
Dr Hyman – Food what the Heck Should I Cook cookbook page 139. This recipe called for a lot of asparagus, I didn’t have that, I had a handful. So I decided to make soup for just me. His soup recipe serves four and I’m just one person and I’ll admit to the fact that…
Zucchini Latkes with Guacamole
Page 94 of Dr. Hyman’s Food What the Heck Should I Cook cookbook had a recipe of which I happened to have almost everything for without a trip to the store! The zucchini latkes recipe ask for nine cups of zucchini. That’s freaking insane for a single person this recipe was built to serve six…
Toasted Butternut Pizza
In the Dr. Mark Hyman cookbook What the Heck Should I Cook cookbook the actual recipe is called Toasted Sage Butternut Pizza (page 217.) I didn’t use sage.. I used spinach. This was by far the most complicated pizza I have ever made in my life. But…it was good. it was complicated only because of…
LA Rox Life! 