I’ve made this ratatouille inspired medley twice and it’s a keeper! The trick is to start with lots of good olive oil and add the diced onions, eggplant, zukes, peppers and tomatoes in layers, cooking slowly so that the flavors meld. Lots of fresh herbs. 🌿 great slathered on crusty bread 🥖 #foodsky

Our latest work linking the Golgi Calcium Pump to actin cytoskeleton defects in Hailey Hailey Disease keratinocytes has been accepted for publication in Am J Physiol-Cell Physiol. 🥳 Big thanks to our team and collaborators at UMich Skin Biol Diseases Res Ctr (UM-SBDRC) for making this happen! 🧪

Creamy white bean dip with tahini, roasted garlic, olive oil and lemon 🍋 juice. Add some smoked paprika and cayenne for a kick. #foodsky

Upside down cherry tomato corn bread. Baked in a cast iron skillet by my daughter. Thunderstorms outside, cozy inside 😘 #foodsky

Spanish tostada, a Catalan favorite, on this scorching hot Independence Day. Grate (yes, grate) a cut tomato into a bowl and heap it on a toasted baguette or crusty bread. Sprinkle salt and a generous drizzle of good olive oil. I rubbed a cut garlic clove on the bread right after toasting. #Foodsky

Falafel for dinner on a gorgeous summer evening. Served on a bed of baba ganoush and mohamarra. #foodsky

Thankful for providence for gifting me with this good boy who knows exactly how to pose when not one two legged member of my family will oblige #dogs #aussie #samwise 😂

Reviewer, review thyself! Not ONE of dozens of rubbish experiments forced on us by unpaid peer reviewers of our current manuscript in revision has made an iota difference to the conclusions. But it HAS wasted 2 months of two postdocs and $$$$$ that we can't afford.

🧪Senate Agreement Reached to Restart SBIR, STTR Innovation Programs. 6 years of re-authorization and language to limit high volume SBIR "mills". Bill is not signed into law yet, but looks hopeful. www.nsbaadvocate.org/post/nsba-sb...

Join us for a day long workshop on Human Organoids featuring cutting edge science, including our keynote talk by Prof. Dan Huh from U Penn. Registration is required, but free! Zoom link available on request. 🧪

Welcoming the New Year with black eyed peas and a cheesy gratin of collard greens for good luck 🎉 Happy New Year #foodsky ! What are you celebrating with tonight?

Annual holiday tradition- Brie with caramelized mushrooms and onions, scooped up with toasted French bread #foodsky

The best part of the holidays is that I can cook to my heart's content. Cornmeal blueberry pancakes for breakfast, udon noodles in a red curry soup with cabbage and carrot dumplings for dinner. Happy cooking! #foodsky

🧪Our paper titled “The Christianson syndrome protein, sodium hydrogen exchanger isoform 6, is required for fat accumulation" was chosen by J Physiol Editor-in-Chief as the Editor’s Choice! 🥳 This is our 1st paper using a mouse model & venturing into adipocyte biology 😍 Open Access: lnkd.in/eGs6sPds

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I saw a patch of evening sun on the Celosia and this good boy understood the assignment 📷🐾

Hop and Change

Wrapping up a great conference on acid-base regulation in Copenhagen. Beautiful venue at the Royal Danish Academy. Our Canadian and European colleagues are aghast at the rapid dismantling of science and democracy in the US.

Ladies and gentleman, this is the state of Goddard Space Flight Ctr of NASA today. Spouse just returned from a trip abroad to this 🤦‍♀️

Strawberry 🍓 crostata for 4 yo Rhys’ birthday next door 🎉

If I wrote a book on the joy of picking tomatoes, would you read it? My writing style is irreverent, self deprecating humor

Nature forgives. Rabbits decapitated the seedlings, bugs destroyed the zucchini and heat made the basil bolt. But we persevered - added chicken wire fencing, more compost and plenty of TLC. This was today's haul. No bushels of tomatoes this year, but a small harvest is better than no harvest. 🙏

Too many cherry tomatoes? Arrange them cut side down on parchment paper lined skillet and pour corn bread batter over it. Voila! Upside down cherry tomato corn bread. Courtesy of my daughter Anjana. #foodsky

What does he want? 😂

One of the demands of being a 🌞morning person is a hot and savory breakfast. No cold muesli for me! By the time I’ve taken Samwise for a walk, tackled the most urgent and demanding jobs from work and checked on mom in India, I’m hungry! Thanks to Sammy 🐶 I made quick work of this pita melt #foodsky

Today's experiment - bagels! Easy and deliciously chewy recipe but not a winner in the looks department 😀 Next time, I'll try rolling the dough into a rope and closing it to make the hole. Also, I forgot the second (short) rise, oops! #foodsky

I made Trinidadian "doubles" - channa (chickpeas) on two pieces of bara (yeasty sweetish dough, quickly fried in very hot oil). Typically served on wax paper which is swung shut and crimped at the ends (very messy!). My version is tamely served on plates. The Caribbean hot sauces make the dish!

Bucolic sights around Les Diablerets at the Gordon Research Conference on Mechanisms of Membrane Transport. Why yes, I consider attending a conference as vacation 😎🤓

George Clooney’s villa as we floated by. We did wave but, oddly they didn’t invite us for cocktails 🤷🏼‍♀️

Last dinner in Como before we head for the Alps. Ceci beans in sweet onion tomato gravy, stir fried veggies and flaky flat bread, not quite like tortillas? Fontina cheese tucked into flatbread. Best I could do with the tiny minimart in town.