Apart from the weather (and having to shell out over $1500 for USMLE Step 1 and 2 CK applications), this week has been a good one; here are some things that I enjoyed:
- Duchess Bake Shop -- Duchess Bake Shop, recently named on Buzzfeed's list of 23 Bakeries Around The World You Need To Eat At Before You Die, is a popular local bakery that I finally got around to visiting with a friend last weekend. "Popular" is probably an understatement. This place is a phenomenon! For the duration of our hour-long visit (yes, we were lucky enough to actually find seats), the line remained at least forty people long, trailing down the sidewalk. With my first bites of dark chocolate meringue, strawberry cheesecake brioche, and hummingbird cake I could see why it drew such a crowd -- everything was so so good!
dark chocolate meringue ($0.95) & strawberry cheesecake brioche ($2.75)
The pastry dough was perfectly light and flaky and the fillings were creamy and delicious. The prices are reasonable as well ($0.95 for a giant meringue, $3 for most other pastries). It was so tough to decide what to get when everything looked so amazing! I'm already plotting my return to try their enormous pains au chocolat and beautiful scones.
hummingbird cake ($3) 
tough decisions - chocolate coconut oatmeal -- Eating oatmeal for breakfast (...and occasionally dinner) seven days a week, I try to mix it up. Today's combination of desiccated coconut and chocolate whey protein powder was definitely a winner!
- celery revival -- I often don't make it through a bunch of celery before it starts getting limp. Yesterday, inspired by that capillary action food-colouring celery experiment (you know, the one kids do in school), I tried soaking my floppy celery sticks overnight in water. Success! (Further experimentation has revealed that this also works for lettuce!)
soaking... 
revived! - National Medical Laboratory Week -- In addition to games like "guess the number of gram negative rods", the pathology department hosted a free lunch today in honour of National Medical Laboratory Week.
the most exciting part of this meal: Dr Pepper (it was my favourite as a kid and has been missing from my life for far too long!) - Alley Kat Aprikat -- I'd been wanting to try this local beer for a while now and was happy to find it on the menu at Langano Skies. It has a subtle apricot aroma and does actually taste like apricot -- in a good way!
- anthropomorphized organs -- In the interest of adding one thing to this list that is not food, here is a cute medicine-related cartoon from The Awkward Yeti:
(http://theawkwardyeti.com/comic/gall-bladders-day/)
What was great in your week?
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