Salmon Burgers

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl, and Jess from Hello To Fit, to create awesome healthy recipes each week! This week’s theme = Burgers!

If you don’t care about my life, you can just skip to the recipe down below! :O

As per usual, I’m detouring to update you on the mess that is my 4th-year schedule.

Thank you so much to everyone for keeping me in your thoughts last week! My school’s legal department didn’t get back to me, so my rotation got cancelled. I’m scrambling to find a rotation on super-short notice and no one is responding.

LIFE IS PEACHY.

Like with everything else in life, however, there are still lots of things to be thankful for.

#1: I will not in fact be homeless next week!

I was pretty amused when Abby mentioned how nonchalant I seemed about potentially being homeless. I owe this to the fact that med school has forced me to roll with the punches and to not get worked up over little things.

One of the guys who was going to be moving in is planning to try driving here during his first week, so I get to stay in the student house! I guess I won’t have to sleep in the car and shower at the gym!

#2: The program I lost my rotation at opened up a spot for me in November.

They said they don’t usually do this, but given the circumstances, they’re going to try to make it happen! If it works out, I’d still get to rotate and interview there, and I could potentially see my family for Thanksgiving?!? (It’s been a year since I’ve seen them.)

Fingers crossed that the legal department responds to me by then. At this point, they’ve had over half a year to do so, but alas. ;_;

#3: All my recommendation letters are in! (I don’t know which ones to send in though.)

We’re allowed to send a maximum of 4 in. I have 3 for FM (1 outpatient, 1 inpatient, 1 = my dean), so I’m having issues deciding which of the 3 I have left to use for that last slot! Since we waive our rights to read the actual letter, I can only go off general impressions to figure out which one’s the strongest one.

Surgery?

• I know surgery isn’t similar to family medicine at all, but when someone offers to write you a letter, it tends to be a better one than what you’d get if you were the one who asked. On my eval, he wrote that I was a “very fast learner, gifted in working with patients,” and that I “gathered + presented information very well.“

Internal Medicine?

• I reallyy liked working with my IM preceptor too–he does a lot of the things that I really hope to incorporate into my future practice, and I feel like we got along really well. His patients kept thinking I was his daughter(??), and he wrote this on my eval: “Excellent work ethic. Hard worker. Keen learner.”

Pediatrics?

• I adored this rotation as well. I got along with my preceptor super well, and he was all sorts of awesome! I have no comments to share for this one though because I have this suspicion that my school lost the original grade sheet, so they didn’t input the comments. (I saw him writing things in the “Overall Strengths” section, but there’s nothin’ on my actual rotation report.

Which one to choose!?

#4: Yay for interviews! <3

‘Nuff said! :]

Alright! Thanks for listening to me ramble! Here’s my recipe for salmon burgers! :D

Salmon Burgers

Ingredients:

• 2 6 oz. cans Alaskan pink salmon
• 3 small eggs (fresh from the farm!)
• 1/4 cup ground chia seeds
• generous 1/4 cup red onions, diced
• generous 1/4 cup mixed bell peppers, diced
• freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• garlic powder, to taste
• cayenne pepper, to taste

Instructions:

1. Mix all ingredients together and form into patties.
2. Place onto Foreman grill and let cook for ~5-7 minutes.
3. Top with guacamole, hummus, cole slaw, spring mix…sky’s the limit!

I had Wholly Guacamole’s Guacamole with Spicy Pico de Gallo on hand, so I topped em’ off with that! :D

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

I’m running 2 giveaways right now, so be sure to enter for your chance to win awesome foodstuffs!

• 09/13 was International Chocolate Day! Read about my food adventures whilst in Columbus, and enter my giveaway to get a free box of Chocolate Mint Cookie Crunch Balance bars! :]
• Ever heard of Nektar Naturals honey crystals? Check out my recipe for a 5-Ingredient Breakfast Acai Bowl + enter my giveaway for a chance to win a bottle of your own!
• I reviewed The Lady In Blue a little while ago…and I got a chance to read the book that came before it, Grunge Gods & Graveyards! :]!

• What’s your favorite burger recipe?
• Which letter should I use for that last slot!?

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