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Daily Archive: January 13, 2011

Corn flour & coconut tofu

There’s quite a bit of confusion surrounding the difference between corn flour and cornmeal.  They are not entirely different, but after doing further research, I found the following.  1. Corn flour is ground finer than corn meal 2. Corn flour has a stronger taste 3. Corn flour is more commonly used as an ingredient in a recipe, whereas cornmeal is a staple in many countries’ diets. 4. Cornmeal can be made from white, yellow, or blue corn (or any combination of the three). I chose Bob’s Red Mill Corn Flour on a whim.  Theirs is… Read more >

January 13, 2011 coconut, edamame, quinoa, tofu Read more >

We all made it out alive

Today was insane but I’m too drained to go into very much detail about it.  It’s a miracle I made it out of this past shift alive, and even more amazing that all my patients did too.  They were circling (the drain), and I wasn’t having it.  As soon as I finally thought I had solved one problem, another (even bigger one) arose.  It was 100% one of those days.  How can you be FOUR hours behind just ONE hour into a shift?  It’s puzzling, but I actually think I managed to find a wormhole… Read more >

January 13, 2011 butternut squash, oatmeal, peanut butter, quinoa Read more >