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“Freestone” Stonefruit and Berry Crisp

POSTED: July 25, 2010

Marlene Gonzales of the Lone Oak Ranch has taught me many things at my hospital’s farmers’ market over the years. I just learned from her that different varieties of stonefruit become “freestone” at different times. It’s sort of like humans who go through puberty at different ages. The summer heat [...]

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Inside My Brain

POSTED: July 24, 2010

I plan to make a stonefruit and blueberry crisp for guests tonight. The recipe I will share in another post makes enough to fill a 9″ pie plate. I’d like to have leftovers so I will use a 9″ by 13″ pyrex baking dish. This requires some [...]

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Mango Guacamole

POSTED: July 08, 2010

Recently I had the privilege to participate in a mini-Iron chef cookoff with a colleague, Dr. Juan Guerra, an OB-Gyn physician with The Permanente Medical Group at the Oakland Medical Center. Juan was one of the founders of our Latino module created to better serve this group of members. As [...]

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Perfect Brown Rice

POSTED: June 27, 2010

Every so often you learn something that changes your life. I finally learned how to cook brown rice. I’ve tried fancy saucepans, not so fancy saucepans, varying the amount of liquid, heat diffusers, direct flame, and a version of a rice cooker that also steams veggies. Not [...]

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Farro, Vegetables, and Animal Protein

POSTED: June 24, 2010

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Kaiser Permanente’s medical office building in Stockton, give a talk on the benefits of shopping at farmers’ markets, and do a cooking “demo” — really just mincing some garlic, dicing an onion, making a red wine vinaigrette, and doing the cherry tomato slicing [...]

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