About how he aspired to merely attend high school, how he made ends meet (barely) and how he eventually made it to medical school and became the expert he is. This is his memoir about how he went from being a penniless migrant from Mexico to one of the world’s most renowned experts in brain tumors. Q, by Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University. I almost never read books about politics because I think many (most?) of our elected politicians succumb to the lure of power and forget who they work for, us, the public.īecoming Dr. She testified to Congress about what she knew. Enough, gives you plenty of detail leading up to and after the January 6th uprising. when she couldn’t live with herself and subvert the truth. She worked under Mark Meadows and suffered a lot of ridicule when she quit. The book is a memoir of her short spin working at the highest levels, and obviously at the White House. That’s why I bought it.Ĭassidy Hutchinson is a young woman (a real one) who works in politics or “government.” She’s worked for some prestigious Washington politicians, and ended up working for Trump. I could hardly put this book down it was so riveting. About the stock market crash back in 1929, but it’s about a man. It’s a book, within a book, within a book. Both of my book clubs have it as a read this year. More than anything the book is about relationships, not only Marcellus with a woman (of a certain age) who cleans the aquarium at night, but the various people in this small town. Marcellus himself writes some of the chapters. In particular this one, Marcellus, who lives in an aquarium in a fictitious town in western Washington State. It’s a novel however, much of the story is about the intelligence of octopus. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt. They both lead very busy lives, so we’ll see. Now in 2023, I’m still doing 99% of the blogging and holding out hope that these two lovely and excellent cooks will participate. I started the blog in 2007, as a way to share recipes with my family. Daughter Sara on the right, and daughter-in-law Karen on the left. Made from tiny balls of semolina and wheat flour, couscous is a handy side dish as it requires zero cooking.Here are the tastingspoons players. Because this recipe has the Moroccan spice mix, we’ve served it with the North African specialty couscous. Why do we serve apricot chicken with couscous?īack in the 70’s, we would have served our apricot chicken with boiled rice. Instead, thicken the sauce with 1 tablespoon of non-wheaten cornflour mixed with 1 tablespoon of water at the end. If you want a gluten-free version it’s okay to omit this step. The flour layer also prevents the chicken from sticking to the pan. Firstly, it helps give the chicken a nice golden crust. Why do you coat the chicken in flour?Ĭoating the chicken thigh fillets in flour (also known as dredging) before frying has a few advantages. Continue to the end of step three but adding the nectar mixture to the chicken along with the dried apricots. Yes! Cook the chicken as directed and transfer to the bowl of a slow cooker. Can I cook this apricot chicken in the slow cooker? The word nectar is used as the result tends to be thicker and more syrupy than a juice. Unlike oranges, apples and pears, they can’t be juiced, so instead, they are pureed, sweetened and added to water. What is the difference between apricot juice and nectar?Īpricots aren’t a very juicy fruit. Thanks to recipes like this we’ll be eating apricot chicken for generations to come.- Alison Adams - Food Writer and Recipe Tester sweet and savoury sauce - this is the comfort food of my childhood with a bit of a grown-up edge. This apricot chicken recipe is a twist on the one mum made, swapping the French onion soup for Moroccan spice mix to create. The remaining nectar was stored in the fridge where we’d sneak decadent sips straight from the can. In the case of cans of apricot nectar, we used the pointy part of the can opener to pierce two holes on the top of the can to allow the thick syrup to glug into the frying pan. Before the (brilliant) invention of ring pull cans, we were at the mercy of can openers. Ham steaks Hawaiian (grilled ham with pineapple) was on high rotation in our house, my mother would set grated carrot in orange jelly and serve as a side at barbecues, and restaurants were serving up duck a l’orange. The 1970’s saw us getting pretty creative with our dinners, especially when it came to adding fruit to savoury dishes.
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