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Sam's Three things about House!

1. LUKE, YOU WHORE! Sleeping with Harrie in LA and flirting with Cuddy in Princeton! Leading a bigamous double life as movie producer and auto mechanic! For shame.

2. That was by far the most cringeworthy, horrifying, Saw-esque episode of House ever. Oh my god. With the car crash you knew was coming and the crunch when she fell and the drilling of the head and THE TAPEWORM OMG EW.

3. On the other hand, I think the Cuddy/House scene on her front step was made of awesome.

3a. CAMERON FOR THE WIN. And in this case, Cameron and Chase both win! Because Chase always wins. Except when Wilson wins, but I'm pretty sure "breakfast" is Wilson and House's code for "pervy sex". So everyone but Foreman wins. Poor Foreman.

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Man, what the hell did I do to myself now?

Around noon, I noticed that one of my feet looked...weird. I'd been sitting in front of the window and my feet were kind of cold, so I thought maybe it was actually just that it was cold-numb, but uh, no. My ankle's swollen, not seriously but visibly. It's stiff, but there's no pain at all. Is it possible to sprain an ankle painlessly? I did slip and skid a bit getting home yesterday, but at no point was I in pain.

Anyway, I elevated it for a while, but that got really boring really fast, so I got up and made lemon curd instead. I use Alton Brown's recipe: whisk three egg yolks and a half cup of sugar together, add a quarter cup of lemon juice (and zest, if you like), whisk in a metal bowl over a simmering pot of water for eight or nine minutes until thick, rather like a syrup. Stir in half a stick of butter, a little bit at a time, and keep in a clean airtight container in the fridge.

Lemon curd is good on biscoff biscuits or toast, in yoghurt or cooked pastry shells, and licked off one's fingers.

Now, here's my question for the chefs at Sam's cafe (gather round the test kitchen, guys): what is the chemistry of lemon curd? More specifically, why are there not more "curds" of this kind, with eggs and butter? It's something to do with the acidity, right? Could I make orange curd, or is that how marmalade is made? If I had a sufficient quantity of apple juice to replace the lemon, could I make apple curd? What if I wanted to make an almond-flavoured curd, could I mix a smaller amount of almond and vanilla extract and use that in place of lemon juice? The only almond curd recipe I've found uses gelatin, which, ugh.

I can't make egg curd with almond, can I? Should I waste my last three eggs in the attempt? Can I find Better Living Through Almond Curd? What would Alton do?