about time…

April 23rd, 2009 nick

A paper that I’ve been working on for close to two years with some colleagues at school has just been published by Lancet Infectious Diseases.  Our review of incubation periods was selected as one of the “Editor’s choice” articles for this month’s issue and is also featured on the podcast.  Maybe it’ll even be cited a few times…

the special sauce

April 9th, 2009 nick

After much complaining from my housemate about stale stir fry recipes that were too vinegary or didn’t have quite enough pizzaz, I hit the books last night in search of a good stir fry sauce recipe.  This was the result (it got rave reviews from the home restaurant critics), and was the first time that I had made a sauce that coated all the vegetables — I think maybe mixing it all together beforehand instead of just sprinkling all the sauces individually over the wok makes a big difference…

  • 1/3 c soy sauce
  • 1/3 c sherry
  • 1/3 c water
  • ~1 T corn starch
  • 1 big squirt rooster sauce
  • thumb-sized piece of ginger, minced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • ~1 tablespoon honey
  • sprinkling of cooking rice wine
  • dash ground white pepper

Mix all wet ingredients together (and white pepper), add corn starch and mix with fork until no lumps.  Add ginger and garlic.  Let it sit while you chop veggies, pre-fry tofu.  Pour the sauce over the stir fry when you’re just about done stir-frying.  Let it all fry for about two more minutes, stirring it all up so the sauce coats nicely and starts to thicken just a bit.  Serve to housemate with low expectations.  Enjoy!

spring beginneth

April 7th, 2009 nick

Coincidence?  You decide.

1605h EDT :: Beckett throws the first pitch of the season for the Sox.

1605 EDT :: I am released from my position as an alternate juror on the murder trial that I’ve been sitting on for six days.

Starting tomorrow, I get a full day to work for the first time since before the trial, before Thailand and before ENAR, i.e. since March 13.