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These images are both taken from The Cake Maker of Transylvania, the new picture-book I’m writing with Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis.

Featuring my work colleague Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis. Not really a pork pie, but a raised vegetarian pie that looks a bit like one and has a similar meaty texture when you cut into it. Ingredients for the hot-water pastry: flour, butter, salt, caster sugar, nutmeg, hot water. Ingredients for the filling: onions, black beans (or kidney beans), red lentils, breadcrumbs, cheddar cheese, parsley, salt, cumin, paprika, black pepper, egg. Plus one beaten egg to brush the pastry with.

‘The Doubter’s Mysteries’ are an attempt to write a short cycle of Mystery Plays – ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield – from the point of view of a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn’t believe in God, or can’t work out what he’s playing at.

There are fourteen of these plays, and the eighth is now online: ‘David and Bathsheba’.

http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/08davidandbathsheba.html (or for the full series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)

The Research Summaries + Quiz for March 2019 are now online. To find out more about Dr Hairy’s Research Summaries, visit http://www.drhairy.org/concrete5/index.php/research-summaries/

Subjects covered this time:

Cannabis based drugs: GPs will have to manage patients’ expectations, says expert
BMJ 2018;363:k4354
Long term adjuvant endocrine therapy and risk of cardiovascular disease in female breast cancer survivors: systematic review
BMJ 2018;363:k3845
Serial circulating omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and healthy ageing among older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study: prospective cohort study
BMJ 2018;363:k4067
Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and healthy ageing
BMJ 2018;363:k4263
Pre-eclampsia and risk of dementia later in life: nationwide cohort study
BMJ 2018;363:k4109
Psychiatrists cancel cannabis debate after no one would argue for criminalising users
BMJ 2019;364:l417
Artificial Intelligence
Extracted from ‘Seven Days in Medicine’, BMJ 2019;364:l426
Farewell London, hallo Amsterdam: EMA lowers flag on 24 years in UK
BMJ 2019;364:l442
The pill and women’s sexuality
BMJ 2019;364:l335
Effect of breakfast on weight and energy intake: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
BMJ 2019;364:l42
Breakfast—the most important meal of the day?
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/01/30/tim-spector-breakfast-the-most-important-meal-of-the-day/

Ingredients: potatoes, tandoori masala, salt, oil.

With thanks to Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis!

I’ve now uploaded these to Red Bubble, so you can buy cushions, coffee-mugs etc with these images on them, should you feel so inclined: my Red Bubble page is https://www.redbubble.com/people/edwardpicot?asc=u

Just for a change, I thought I’d make a cookery video.

Ingredients:

Filling:
1 large onion
2 carrots
half a celeriac
2 small parsnips
4 small potatoes
butter, salt, pepper

Gravy:
Red wine
Yeast extract
Damson jam
1 tablespoon of flour
hot water

Pastry:
12oz flour
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1 teaspoon of caster sugar
half a pack of butter
hot water

With special thanks to Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis and Isaac the Dog!

‘The Doubter’s Mysteries’ are an attempt to write a short cycle of Mystery Plays – ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield – from the point of view of a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn’t believe in God, or can’t work out what he’s playing at.

There are fourteen of these plays, and the sixth is now online: ‘Moses’.

http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/06moses.html (or for the full series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)

The Research Summaries + Quiz for Jan 2019 are now online. To find out more go to http://www.drhairy.org/concrete5/index.php/research-summaries/ . Subjects covered this time:

Effectiveness of an intervention to optimise the use of mirabegron for overactive bladder: a quasi-experimental study in primary care
Br J Gen Pract 2018; 68 (677): e852-e859. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X699953

What is the root cause of the GP workforce crisis?
Br J Gen Pract 2018; 68 (677): 589-590. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X700145

Quaternary prevention: a balanced approach to demedicalisation
Br J Gen Pract 2019; 69 (678): 28-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp19X700517

Relationship between prescribing of antibiotics and other medicines in primary care: a cross-sectional study
Br J Gen Pract 2019; 69 (678): e42-e51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X700457

Nasal balloon autoinflation for glue ear in primary care: a qualitative interview study
Br J Gen Pract 2019; 69 (678): e24-e32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X700217

Spiritual care is stagnating in general practice: the need to move towards an embedded model
Br J Gen Pract 2019; 69 (678): 40-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp19X700613

Association between intake of non-sugar sweeteners and health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and observational studies
BMJ 2019;364:k4718

Non-sugar sweeteners and health
BMJ 2019;364:k5005

The health benefits of three wheels
BMJ 2019;364:k5192

The vanishing art of doing
BMJ 2019;364:k5326

From The Cake-Maker of Transylvania, the new picture-book I’m working on with Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis.