Ingredients:

400 g pumpkin flesh (about 14 oz)
1 processed cheese (such as Velveeta)
150 g cottage cheese (about 5.3 oz)
4 tablespoons grated cheese
3 eggs
Salt, pepper, and dried aromatic herbs to taste

Cut the pumpkin into pieces and roast it in the oven until soft. Season with salt and pepper, then blend it into a smooth puree.
Separate the egg yolks from the whites. Mix the pumpkin puree with the yolks. Add the processed cheese and the mashed cottage cheese, season with salt, pepper, and…

I just remembered another quirky ability Ira and I share: wherever there’s text—books, store windows, menus—we often read things wrong, instinctively twisting words into our own versions. The funny part is we always misread the same words, no matter where we see them. We end up laughing uncontrollably at the same joke—the same misread line in a book—even when no one else finds it funny.
Our take on any text tends to converge into a single thought. When we were kids we even wrote poetry together…

Eggs – 4
Sour cream – 2 tablespoons
Cheese – 50 g (about 1.8 oz)
Salt and black pepper to taste

Place a spoonful of sour cream in small baking pots and crack two eggs into each. Season with salt and black pepper.
Pour boiling water into a deep baking dish and set the pots inside so the water comes halfway up their sides. Bake for 15 minutes at 180°C (350°F).
Remove the pots from the water bath and place them on a baking sheet. Add the remaining sour cream to each, sprinkle grated cheese on to…

Kidney stones have plagued people for millennia. They cause excruciating pain and can lead to serious complications, especially when proper medical care is lacking. So any new finding about kidney stones matters.
An interdisciplinary team behind a new study found live bacteria and biofilms inside the most common type of stones — those made of calcium oxalate (oxalate stones). These account for about 80 percent of all cases. Until now, scientists thought these stones were made entirely of minera…

Ingredients:

Potatoes: 500 g (approx. 1.1 lbs)
Flour: 1 cup
Onions: 2
Broccoli: 250 g (approx. 9 oz)
Red bell pepper: 1-2
Oil: 150 ml (approx. 5 fl oz)
Apple cider vinegar: 1 tablespoon
Sugar: 1 tablespoon
Black pepper and salt to taste

Peel the potatoes, boil them, and mash them until smooth. Add 3 tablespoons of oil, salt, pepper, and flour, and then knead the mixture until it forms a soft, elastic dough. Roll the dough into ropes and cut the ropes into dumplings—you can shape them any way …

Fish Patties Recipe
Ingredients:

200 g lean fish fillet (approx. 7 oz)
1 onion
30 g butter (approx. 2 tablespoons)
1/3 bunch dill or parsley
1 tablespoon semolina
1 egg
Oil for frying, salt to taste

Instructions:

Wash, peel, and chop the onion.
Rinse the fish fillet and grind it together with the onion in a meat grinder twice.
Beat the egg and add the semolina.
Finely chop the dill or parsley.
Mix the ground fish and chopped onion with the egg and semolina.
Add salt and the butter, then stir…