Wednesday Bible Study: Tale of two cities
The first four verses of Ch. 11 are lifted from Kings, but the rest is of unknown provenance. However, it is generally consistent with Kings in the idea that Israel, under Jeroboam, strays from the law, including Jeroboam ' s golden idols and promotion of non-Levite priests, while Rehoboam ' s Judah remains orthodox. The idea that Levites and faithful people of other tribes migrated to Judah is not really in Kings, however.For those of you who think the Bible says that marriage is between one man and one woman, read the last part of this chapter. Rehoboam ' s marriages are also incestuous, his wives are his nieces and cous...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Roast Cauliflower with Vadouvan Butter
In the “How did I not know about this before?” category, allow me to introduce you to vadouvan, a delicious Indo-French curry spice mix that will blow your taste buds and your mind. Thanks to bro Joe for turning me on to vadouvan, though the real credit goes to the French colonists in seventeenth century Pundicherry, India who created the spice mix as they blended French and Indian cuisines. Vadouvan is complex and piquant but milder than traditional curry, and a truly exotic treat for your taste buds.
Joe learned about Vadouvan from his buddy Mourad, the modern Moroccan chef whose book Mourad-New Moroccan ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - January 16, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetables cauliflower French curry vadouvan Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Xerox machine
2 Chronicles 2 is the same story as 1 Kings 5. There are some slight differences in language, which simply suggests that the chronicler was working from a different manuscript than the one that became canonized. (The title of this post is intended to be ironic because the point is, there weren ' t any copying machines, only human scribes whose copying was imprecise, whether accidentally or on purpose.) As usual, the numbers are ridiculous. The Tanakh seems to multiply everything by 10, approximately.2 [a]Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of theLord and a royal palace for himself.2 He conscripted ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Moroccan Baked Beans àla Mourad
In my continued quest to cook as much as possible from my pantry, I honed in on two cans of Great Northern Beans, originally bought to stock our summer cottage larder, but never used. I suspect that they were several years old, and had made the trip up and back from NYC to Pennsylvania at least twice, if not more. (We empty the larder at the cottage when we shut things down for the season.) Canned beans have a shelf life of 2-5 years, so I knew I was on safe ground using them, and I was determined they were not going to be traveling anymore, unless it was to my kitchen table. Also calling to me was a jar of homemade toaste...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - December 7, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized beans feta moroccan mourad onion tomato Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Our long nightmare of boredom is almost over
Chapter 27 is the last of the seemingly eternal recitation of meaningless names. There ' s no point in saying anything about this, it ' s very existence is inexplicable. As always, the total number of soldiers is absurd. So I ' ll just take this opportunity to say that mediation of the news by for profit corporations is just a fact of American society. I didn ' t take a position on it one way or another. There are not-for-profit news sources of course, e.g. NPR and PBS, but they depend on sponsorship just as much as for-profit companies. People just need to be skeptical and critical consumers of information. You need ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 4, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Spanish Stuffed Peppers – The Evolution of a New Recipe
My love affair continues with Sofrito, the Spanish slow cooked tomato-olive oil-mirepoix that’s a staple in a healthy Mediterranean diet. I now make it regularly, storing it in small jars in my freezer and searching for ways to incorporate it into the foods we make. For example, these stuffed peppers, a recipe I am proud to say I came up with all by myself. Well, actually, that’s not entirely true. I had a little help from my friends (and family). Let me tell you how it went down…
Last week, while at the market, a beautiful multicolored fresh pepper medley caught my eye. I knew I had a pound of lean g...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 28, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Rice Vegetables bell peppers corn fish sauce Flor de garum mexican recipe SOfrito Spanish Stuffed Peppers umami Source Type: blogs
Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup
I’m often asked to recommend recipes for Thanksgiving, so here’s a few suggestions for you all.
I’ve never actually cooked a turkey, so this will just be sides and desserts. To be honest, that’s pretty much are all I care to eat at Thanksgiving dinner anyway.
Noticeably missing from this list are recipes for cranberry sauce (I use the one on the cranberry bag – no need to mess with perfection), mashed potatoes (there is no recipe, it’s instinctual if you’re Patsy’s daughter), and stuffing (I’ve never made it, that gets assigned to someone else).
Hope the...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Gluten-free thanksgiving Holidays recipes Sides Thanksgiving desserts Thnksgiving recipes Vegetarian thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Orecchiette with Basil Pesto, Fennel & Sausage
As the weather turns towards winter, the basil plant on my windowsill begins to worry me. Sure, it has sun in that spot, but less and less with each day, and eventually not enough to keep it alive when cold winds pummel the adjacent glass. Time to harvest what basil remains before it’s lost. I had just enough basil for a batch of pesto, but no pine nuts. What I did have was a tiny jar of walnuts in my freezer – exactly the amount I needed! So I made a batch of pesto using my recipe for basil pesto, substituting walnuts for pine nuts.
I also had about 2 cups of homemade chicken broth in the freezer. So I sco...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 16, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Pasta Rice & Potatoes basil Chicken broth Orecchiette pesto sausage Source Type: blogs
Basil Pesto
Posting this recipe for easy reference in an upcoming post. Enjoy!
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Basil Pesto
Ingredients2 cups loosely packed basil leaves1/4 cup pine nuts2 large garlic cloves, peeled1/2 cup olive oil1/2 tsp salt1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
InstructionsCombine the basil, garlic, and salt in the bowl of food processor and grind till the mixture forms a paste. While running the food processor, slowly drizzle in the olive oil. Fold in grated Parmesan. (If freezing, hold the Parmesan till just before using the thawed pesto.)
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Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 16, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Pasta Rice & Potatoes basil pesto Source Type: blogs
Eleven Madison Park Granola
They don’t offer this granola on the menu at Eleven Madison Park, New York’s award-winning, 3-star restaurant serving only plant-based food, with a tasting menu that will run you $365 a pop. Instead, all diners get a jar of the granola as a parting gift at the end of their meal, to serve at tomorrow morning’s breakfast. It’s actually a nice touch…
The restaurant wasn’t always vegan, and not everyone was happy when chef Daniel Humm decided to eschew all but plant-based foods when he re-opened the place in 2021 after a Covid hiatus. Although Eleven Madison was once purported to have a ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 5, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Breakfast 11 madison park Dried cherries evelen madison park granola Source Type: blogs
Blistered Shishito Peppers
Thanks to my daughter for turning us on to Blistered Shishito Peppers – a simple, fast, delicious and fun appetizer.
The Shishito is mild pepper brought to the US from Japan and now widely available here in the United States. We got ours from Trader Joes, but you can easily grow them in your home garden.
The Shishito pepper likely came to Japan from Spain, where it is called a Padron pepper and is much hotter. It is believed to have mellowed after generations of selective breeding in Japanese soil.
The fastest and most fun way to get to know Shishito is to toss them in a little olive oil,
blister t...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers blistered shishito peppers charred shishito peppers Japnese food Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Unstuck in Time
One norm of story telling that doesn ' t interest the Chronicler is chronological order. First he told us about the return from Babylon, then he abruptly jumped back centuries to the death of Saul, without any warning. Now he jumps back in time again to the period when David was a pretender to the throne and hiding out with a guerilla band. Modern story tellers may certainly use flashbacks but they also have some way of helping us keep track. If you didn ' t already know the story, you would be hopelessly confused by now.While Chapter 12 is not inconsistent with Samuel, unlike previous material it evidently has a different...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Welcome Back
The chronicler is finallyalmostdone with the genealogies and gets to story telling -- specifically the return from the Babylonia exile. Just as a reminder, according to the Book of Kings -- with corroboration of the rough outlines from other sources, after the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrian emperor Senacherib failed, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon did conquer Jerusalem. His soldiers massacred the military leadership, destroyed the Temple, and took the literate priesthood and the royal household into exile in Babylon. Kings probably exaggerates the number of exiles -- most of the population remained under the rule of a Vicer...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 2, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 3rd 2022
In conclusion, based on the analysis of proteomics and transcriptome, we identified four SRMs that may affect aging and speculated their possible mechanisms, which provides a new target for preventing aging, especially skin aging.
A Popular Science Article on the State of Epigenetic Clocks
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/09/a-popular-science-article-on-the-state-of-epigenetic-clocks/
This popular science article is a good view of the present state of development and use of epigenetic clocks, covering the issues as well as the promise. Epigenetic age can be measured, with many different clocks...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Small Lifespan Study of Combined Interventions
My attention was drawn recently to a small mouse life span study run by one of the groups that has been in the longevity community for a while now. It is interesting for testing combinations of interventions that have in the past been demonstrated to modestly slow aging in mice (such as rapamycin), or modestly improve aspects of cell function in old tissues (such as nicotinamide mononucleotide). Combinatorial studies are rare in academia and industry, for reasons that have a lot to do with (a) the perverse incentives produced by the existence of intellectual property, in that the rights to use specific interventions can be...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 26, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
