Split Pea and Celeriac Soup – Perfect.
If you want to know my perfect Saturday in NYC, here it is…
Wake up latish – 8 am. Shower and have a cup of coffee while you plan tonight’s dinner. Make a shopping list, set up a loaf of bread to rise, then hit the streets with Mr TBTAM on the bikes. Ride across town, through Central Park, chatting a bit on the phone with your little brother who often calls you on Saturday mornings (love my wireless airpods),
across the West Side to Riverside Park
and the West Side Greenway.
If it’s a cold day in November, dress warmly – scarf, gloves – and don’t let the wind bother you, es...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 12, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Recipes Soups Vegetarian Pea soup Split pea Source Type: blogs
Should You Get a Mammogram?
Leda Derderich wishes she had.
Dederich had stage IV breast cancer diagnosed at age 45, two years after she and her doctor discussed and dismissed the need for a routine screening mammogram while breastfeeding at age 43. That decision to delay screening mammograms may have meant that she lost the chance to find and treat her breast cancer before it had spread beyond the breast. It’s a decision she regrets now, and blames on the confusion around mammogram guidelines.
I have had a much harder time accepting that I was not screened for breast cancer before it was too late. Not because I couldn’t be bothered, was t...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 28, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Breast Cancer Mammography ACOG ACR ACS Guidelines mammogram Stage IV USPSTF Source Type: blogs
Should You Get a Mammogram?
Leda Derderich wishes she’d started having mammograms sooner.
Dederich had stage IV breast cancer diagnosed at age 45, two years after she and her doctor discussed and dismissed the need for a routine screening mammogram while breastfeeding at age 43. That decision to delay screening mammograms may have meant that she lost the chance to find and treat her breast cancer before it had spread beyond the breast. It’s a decision she regrets now, and blames on the confusion around mammogram guidelines.
I have had a much harder time accepting that I was not screened for breast cancer before it was too late. Not be...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 28, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Breast Cancer Mammography ACOG ACR ACS Guidelines mammogram Stage IV USPSTF Source Type: blogs
Healthy, Low Calorie Cauliflower Breadsticks
Do you think whoever named the cauliflower plant knew that one day we would evolve into overweight, carbohydrate-overloaded, gluten-intolerant creatures, who, in searching for a suitable lo-carb substitute would find their holy grail in that crucifer whose name is homonymous with the ground product of the very thing we both crave and shun?
Think cauliFLOUR.
Then go grind up a head of cauliflower in the food processor (or be lazy like me and buy Trader Joes riced cauliflower), steam or microwave it for 10 minutes, strain out the liquid in a tea towel, pour into a large bowl and add two egg whites, 1/4 cup hemp or flax seeds...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 14, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized breadsticks cauliflower crackers Gluten-Free Lo fat low calorie SOuth beach diet Source Type: blogs
Maternal Use of Estrogen Hormonal Contraception Just Before Pregnancy – A Risk for Childhood Leukemia?
In a well done and very interesting study in Lancet Oncology, Danish researchers have identified an association between use of estrogen-containing oral contraceptives in the three months prior to pregnancy or during pregnancy and the risk of childhood leukemia in the offspring of that pregnancy.
The study’s conclusions are strengthened by the fact that the data come from three reliable nationwide Danish databases – one registering births, one registering cancers and the other registering prescriptions – and included over a million children born between 1996 and 2014, with a median of 9 years follow up...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 3, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Best of Birth Control Posts Best of TBTAM Family Planning How to Get Pregnant birth control pills hormonal contraception Leukemia risks Source Type: blogs
Bread – Let it Sing
Listen closely.
That crackling sound you hear is the bread “singing”.
It’s why you should never cut into a piping hot loaf of bread fresh from the oven, tempting as that may be. Let it rest and sing for awhile as it finishes the process of baking all by itself.
Here’s what Jim Lahey has to say about singing, in his book My Bread, which is where I get my bread recipes and technique –
Just after you take a loaf out of the oven, something strange often happens: it begins to make wierd noises, a rapid-fire crackling sound, one pop after another. This “singing” as some bakers call it, is especially...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - July 28, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Bread Cooling Lahey No-Knead Sing Singing Source Type: blogs
The Best Easy Dinner You ’ll Ever Make
Okay. Maybe I’m being hyperbolic about this meal because I’m back on my food delivery diet (I still have a few more pounds to go..) and so all I could do was have a small taste after watching Mr TBTAM cook it. But I really don’t think I’m overstating it.
Skillet Chicken With White Beans and Caramelized Lemon. One of the easiest amazing dinners you can make.
What makes it special is what Alison Roman at the New York Times calls “the liquid gold in your skillet“, that secret ingredient Jewish grandmothers have been sneaking into their children’s vegetables for centuries – chic...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - July 25, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry skillet chicken with white beans and carmelized lemons Source Type: blogs
Title X – Free Speech Under Fire. Again.
It’s deja vu all over again, as the current administration, borrowing a never-implemented move from the Reagan administration, attempts to gag physicians who provide reproductive care to women.
New proposed regs would forbid Title X funded providers from freely providing information about abortion to their patients, limiting such conversation to the provision of a list of names to women who have already decided to have an abortion.
Given that close to 50% of pregnancies in the United States are unplanned and that a significant proportion of women with unplanned pregnancy are unsure what they will do at the time of di...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - July 24, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Abortion Family Planning Uncategorized gag planned parenthood Ruling Title X Source Type: blogs
Blackened Shrimp with Citrus and Roasted Fennel
It’s been quite a long hiatus from blogging, and I for one am glad it’s over.
Nothing special made me stop blogging, just the overwhelming business of life and work. It’s a good life, but one that for the past year or two has lost the balance between work and private life that I seem to have achieved when I was blogging more frequently.
At any rate, things in general have settled down a bit and I find myself actually having free time again to write. And so the blog is back!
What’s new, you ask?
Well, I am about 30 pounds thinner, that’s one big thing. Nothing magic or amazing, just a food delivery diet that let...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - June 23, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Fish Pasta Rice & Potatoes Uncategorized Chrimp Fennel orange quinoa shallot Source Type: blogs
TBTAM ’s Top Ten Podcasts of 2017
You know you’re a radio junkie when you find yourself scribbling not just prescriptions, but lists of podcasts for your patients to listen to on their long plane flights or drives to Flordia or wherever else they are heading for the winter months. I figured if I wrote them all down, I could save myself the scribbling and just share a link to the list.
And so here, in no particular order, are the podcasts I found myself recommending over and over again this past year.
S-Town
Part mystery, part bizarre tale, part crazy sad but also totally wonderful and addicting. I fell in love with this guy John B McLemore, quirks ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - December 12, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Just for Fun best podcasts top ten Source Type: blogs
