Lady Docs Corner Cafe Blog
Thu Tran, MD,FACOG
CARAMELIZED CAULIFLOWER
SIDE DISH CARAMELIZED CAULIFLOWER ( from Todd and Ellen Gray’s ” The New Jewish Table”) Ingredients: 1 cup golden raisins2 tablespoons canola oil1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 head cauliflower (…
Read MoreChickpeas and Tomatoes Salad with Mint
CHICKPEA SALAD WITH FETA CHEESE AND MINT, adapted from “The New Jewish Table” of Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray Makes About 6 Cups Ingredients: Two 15.5 ounce cans chickpeas,…
Read MoreBok Choy and Mushroom Stir Fry
For 2014, be adventuresome! Walk into an Asian grocery store and pick some vegetables you have never tried before. Pick a basic stir-fry sauce (black bean or oyster sauce), and create a…
Read MoreJulia Child’s Soupe au Pistou (Pesto Soup)
Below is a recipe of Julia Child’s Soupe au Pistou, or Pesto Soup. It’s a simple vegetarian soup with the divine taste because of the “Pistou,” not exactly like the Italian “Pesto,” because…
Read More2019 National Race to End Women’s Cancer
This morning, my husband and I and several friends met at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. for our third 5K run/walk for National Race to End Women’s Cancer, to support…
Read MoreHypertension Effect in Pre-Pregnancy Period; USPSTF Drafted Recommendation on HCV Screening; Prolonged Topical Steroid Use and Type 2 Diabetes,
Hypertension in Either Partner Can Delay Pregnancy Time A study from China of 2,234,350 eligible couples, spanning from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016, showed that preconception hypertension in…
Read MoreThe Gastric Cancer that Never Was
This blog probably will be among the longest ones you have seen from me. I often warn my women friends whenever I write a long email, to tell them what…
Read MoreThe Unwinding of the Miracle, by Julie Yip-Williams
“They say that youth is wasted on the young. Now, as I approach my final days, I realize that health is wasted on the healthy, and life is wasted on the…
Read MoreWe Are What We Eat: Stay Slim the Japanese Way
I often heard the expression “We are what we eat,” which turned me immediately off from certain foods. Who would like to be a cow? Chicken? Pig? Should I be…
Read MoreI Don’t Have Answers About Life and Death and Neither Do You, But Let’s Live Our Life Better.
This morning I went to the funeral of a little boy I delivered two and a half years ago. I have taken care of his mother for quite a few…
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