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I forgot to mix the romesco sauce with the lentils for this first run, (didn’t notice it in the list of ingredients used in that step in the recipe) so I just dumped a bit of romesco on top before eating
Blue Apron: Lentil & Farro Stuffed Peppers with Fontina & Romesco Sauce
I started feeling a chest pain in the middle of a Zoom meeting, so after consulting with Kaiser’s emergency line, I went to a walk-in Emergency Room for the first time in my life. (I had been taken to ER on an ambulance after a bike accident before, but waiting in line for ER was a first)
I was very cold and very bored waiting for an hour while they went through my covid rapid test results before they could let me inside the building so we had some fun on group chat. After medical staff told me that all the readings in my heart was coming back normal, I was discharged but they told me to wait to give me paperwork. And then there was yet another 15+ minute delay, so I just escaped the waiting area by calmly walking past the cordoned cones.
Blue Apron: Creamy Mushroom & Spinach Flatbread with Fontina & Garlic
Blue Apron: One-Pan Chickpea & Curry Shakshuka with Tomatoes & Spinach
Blue Apron: Honey-Lime Tilapia with Bok Choy & Brown Rice
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Blue Apron: Sweet Chili Roasted Vegetables with Brown Rice & Cilantro-Yogurt Sauce
For 15 years I’ve only used Humana as my health insurance because it was the cheapest from the options, and this year I tried changing to Kaiser Permanente. Omg when Koreans explained me what Kaiser was like, they were like “yeah it’s like those big integrated hospitals in Korea that Koreans feel at ease in” but I had never heard about their top notch website. I went in at 10am to my first doctor’s appointment, the doctor listened to my concerns about back pain and being tired and made some recommendations and prescriptions, and I got the blood test and prescriptions and was out at 12pm! And the first blood test results came in via email at 1pm, and various result components kept trickling in throughout the day. All results are (relatively) neatly organized in the website.
Compared to the experience I was having with the previous doctor, where 1) it took me 1-3 months to see the doctor again and get the results and 2) them never sharing paper copies or any copies at all, this is crazy! I had implicitly assumed that something in the process was prone to taking a long time. Maybe they dry the blood sample out in the sun, or do centrifugal liquid separation for a couple weeks, who knows.
All in all, a very positive experience.