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Hypothetical question (really, truly):

If you were trying to impress a young lad with your homemade cooking, what would you use as a side dish to complement my signature salmon recipe? (I was going to make it into a real poll, but I got lazy.)

1. Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes. What better way to get a man's affection than through the staple of life? Plus, the author promises that I can expect to be worshipped and kissed for at least 38 hours.

2. Crushed Hot Potatoes. It's got the potato factor in its favor, but it's simple, so it doesn't make me look too desperate.

3. Lemon Flavored Saffron Rice. I brought the saffron in Africa and carried it all the way back with me and haven't used it yet. I love lemony saffron rice and it would really complement the fish. Plus, Cleopatra reportedly had great success with her use of saffron um, probably not the kind of success that I'm really seeking at this time :D.

4. Other! I am obviously an inexperienced Kitchen Goddess and need to be taught immediately that the perfect side dish would be:______________

Your input would be invaluable. And needed before Wednesday so that I can go shopping. Hypothetically, of course.

(As an aside: I LOVE the Pioneer Woman blog. I discovered it a couple of days ago and have spent most of the day browsing through her site. The pictures are goregous and it makes me long for the small town life that I've left behind; I miss those times of absolute solitude. Another part of me is overwhelmingly grateful that Kris Hullinger and I never hit it off, because whoa, I am glad that ranching is not my life.)

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This is my last month as a second year resident, can you believe that? It just incredible how time can fly and still seem so slow. I'm not halfway done with my residency yet... that endpoint still seems a long way away. I certainly down feel ready to be released on the unsuspecting world, but I find myself chomping to get done with this all.

I'm rotating on the epilepsy monitoring unit, which is a different experience. Basically we admit people and provoke them into having seizures and I'm learning how to read EEGs, which is really like learning how to read petroglyphs done in a 3-year-old's squiggly scrawl. I have no idea what I'm doing. The worst is that it really comes down to physics and electricity and currents and vectors, and man, that was my weakest point in all of physics. I could never understand it. I read and read this afternoon and I'm still confuzzled. But I'm excited about a new challenge, and the hours will be a little easier than a regular wards month (still have to do call, bleh)

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I got my DEA license! And promptly had to renew a prescription for a patient, so I'm already being tracked. We won't talk about how much money this little "privilege" cost me, but all I can say is that the little bonus that they give me at the end of the year to cover licensing and exams(while supposedly leaving enough to fund a gym membership as well), didn't even cover half of what I've paid this past year for the honor of becoming a Real Doctor (like Pinocchio, but still with strings). But it's all done now.

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I've had "There are no cats in America/and the streets are filled with cheese" running through my head all day today. I have no idea where that came from, as I probably haven't seen the movie (An American Tail, for those who are less Disney informed (and yes, yes, I know it's not a Disney movie, work with me here)) since I was 10. Weird, especially since I did give in and buy myself a copy of Mulan since I've had an inexplicable urge to watch that movie for the last month, so I should be having "I'll make a man out of you" there in my noggin instead. I did resist on buying the copy of Escape to Witch Mountain which is another one of my childhood favorites; luckily the store didn't have The Three Lives of Thomasina or Toby Tyler --those I could not have said no to.

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I think I'm going for the hammock in the back yard, it would fit the space better. One of these days, I'll redo the front and make a real porch where I can install the swing. I've just gotta make sure that the side of my garage could handle the weight if I hook it there. I wasn't able to find a fire pit yet either, so my backyard beautification project is on-going.

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And I think that's it. It's all I can think to talk about, unless you want to hear that I have dishes to wash and clothes to fold and my hair to cut and CuteIntern friended me on Facebook (mostly shaved now. Definitely cuter) and I've got a date on Thursday that might almost be called a second date and there's still about 5 clinic notes that I haven't finished. Yeah, you definitely don't want to hear about those tedious details about my life. :D

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Date: 2008-06-03 01:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angel-grace.livejournal.com
Ah yes, the joy of the EEG. They never managed to trigger one in me, nor determine what caused the few seizures I did have. Good times.

We still need to get together someday. :)

Drat it all, now I have that Mulan song in my head...

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Date: 2008-06-03 02:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jcd1013.livejournal.com
I get to learn how to put them on people's head. I'm excited. I think that the EEG bed hair ought to become a fashion statement.

YES! We do! I was just thinking that myself, actually. I'll have some free weekends in July and August if we want to try to plan something.

Did you ever manage to get that one episode of Everwood DVR'd? I saw that it had replayed again in October on ABC Family and I kept meaning to ask you. I'd still love to get the disks from you--just let me know how many you need and I'll mail them.

Hee. I love sharing the evil. I could have been so much worse!

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Date: 2008-06-03 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donnazita.livejournal.com
The garlic roasted potatoes sound good, but on the other hand (and I eat a lot of fish and rice, myself), the saffron rice sounds even better.

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Date: 2008-06-03 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jcd1013.livejournal.com
Rice and salmon do seem to go well together, don't they?

You have to try out the fish recipe. It's my absolute favorite. I make it whenever I have an excuse to do so.

*snuggles your icon*

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Date: 2008-06-03 02:11 am (UTC)
wendelah1: (Emily Dickinson for President)
From: [personal profile] wendelah1
I would go with the saffron rice. What are you making for dessert?

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Date: 2008-06-03 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jcd1013.livejournal.com
Thanks for the vote!

Dessert will either be flan or raspberry shortcake, depending on how much time I have and how much sleep I get on call tomorrow night. Flan is easier than anything to make (although I haven't made it at this altitude, so it might be more difficult), but it takes some time.

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Edited Date: 2008-06-03 02:54 am (UTC)

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Date: 2008-06-03 12:47 pm (UTC)
wendelah1: (Default)
From: [personal profile] wendelah1
I would go with something you have already made at that altitude. Raspberry shortcake sounds divine.

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Date: 2008-06-03 02:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eponine119.livejournal.com
Those crushed potatoes look AMAZING.

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Date: 2008-06-03 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jcd1013.livejournal.com
Don't they? I was drooling and can't wait to try them out. She's got a ton of other great recipes, I was getting so hungry!

That's what I said, a wawwy!

Date: 2008-06-03 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valancy-s.livejournal.com
I was trying to think of the name of The Three Lives of Thomasina the other day! (So thanks :D) I loved Escape to Witch Mountain as a kid. Isn't it lucky we have the remake with The Rock to look forward to.

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Date: 2008-06-04 09:36 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I vote Crushed Hot Potatoes. Garlic potatoes can be tricky, tricky, tricky if you've never tried the recipe before. Besides, the salmon recipe has a lot of flavor going on. A little blandness will do it good :)

Good luck!
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