I am not 100% sure that wingham is anywhere near walkerton but they sound pretty similar to me and if walkerton can get e. coli why not wingham? so now I am terrified of getting e. coli from the drinking water and I have not been drinking enough and now I am thoroughly dehydrated.
wingham rush hour is so cute. for about a block there, it was fully stop-and-go traffic as at least half a dozen cars pulled out of the tim hortons parking lot and another two or three nosed their way out of the complimentary roadside parking. I think I almost got road rage.
away from the oppressive tyranny of mila, simon is free to consume egg nog at any time that he might wish. and he wishes now. and so he is drinking a nice tall glass of breakfast nog, his very first of the season, and it is delicious.
p.s. I was slightly put off by this new non-refrigerated nog at loblaws, but other than the fact that one must now patiently wait for the nog to chill before consuming, this new nog seems quite satisfactory. if anything, even richer than before - do I detect butter notes?
mila really cannot be left home alone. I am back in wingham for only one day and she goes and creates this one-dish abomination. using leftovers I made, no less:
mila's curry in a hurry
1) heat oil in frying pan (non-stick, or stick if non-stick still dirty in sink)
2) add leftover asian noodles; move around with tongs
3) make and add chicken broth; tong some more
4) add curry powder and liza's lizano costa rican curry sauce; more tongs
5) add frozen corn
6) add leftover zucchini
7) add leftover lemongrass curry chicken
8) clean tongs with spoon; taste curry
9) serve
10) enjoy!
there is a farm nearby that sells animal fats. I wonder if they carry goose fat. horse? I could really go for a pound or two of horse fat.
could someone please direct me to the hospital photo id retakes department?
pro:
food network and hgtv at the apartment here in wingham.
con:
wingham.
if my delusional patient had read me one more passage from the bible before I fled the psychiatric hospital last week, I swear I would have had to start a jihad on him or something.
if the morning host from cbc radio 2's 'music and company' mentions his non-contact hockey team one more time, I will be personally forced to body-check some sense into him. in fact, if I hear another mind-numbing tale about his perpetually-losing 'vultures,' I might have to set fire to the cbc hq.
for good measure I would probably throw some classical guitars into the blazing inferno.
to the people in the lounge watching hockey right now: how about you check the scores online and let me watch ramsay's kitchen nightmares instead. why are you watching hockey anyways? don't you have work to do?
housekeeeping, my voice message of last week was decidedly unambiguous, and yet the light bulb in the call room has still not been replaced. it is bad enough that you once again forgot to leave me a terrycloth robe, but surely it is not too much to ask for you to attend to a burnt-out light bulb. talk about health care cutbacks.
waitress: "... and it is served with foie gras. do you know what foie gras is?"
mila suggests that everyone go check out the globe, books section, page D18.
p.s. I am talking about the crossword half of page D18. do not check out the warren clements half. it is particularly banal this week.
kkkkhhhhhhh charlie trotter's 20th anniversary: tetsuya wakuda, ferran adria, thomas keller, pierre herme, heston blumenthal and daniel boulud hhhkkkkhhhhhh I have never seen so many top chefs in one place hhhhkkkhhhhh I think I am choking on michelin stars.
Damrosch surreptitiously kept an eye out for women who might be pregnant through observation: "The salmon cornet usually gave it away because most pregnant American women are deathly afraid of anything raw. Immediately we sent them a cornet made with tomato confit and eggplant caviar."
I am really glad that I switched my blue cufflinks out for the gold ones this morning. I think my patient, who aquired a british accent overnight on account of the british cocaine that a local gang slipped into his tea, really appreciated it.
