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Category Archives: food

San Mateo Eggs

05-May-10

San Mateo Eggs, originally uploaded by normnode. Local eggs, nice colors. Please let the omelet be worthy.

April Bagels

18-Apr-10

April Bagels, originally uploaded by normnode. The Cook’s Illustrated team came up with a very effective bagel recipe for the home kitchen. When I use it, I deviate from the instructions in two ways. I knead the dough by hand since I don’t have a KitchenAid mixer, and I don’t use high gluten flour, instead [...]

Bread does not live by man alone….

03-Feb-10

It takes a community. Like The Fresh Loaf

Hilarious, extreme coffee snobbery.

10-Jan-10

How to Brew a Good Cup of Coffee from Ben Helfen on Vimeo. I probably shouldn’t categorize this post as one about food; don’t try following these instructions, whatever you do. If you take coffee seriously – really, really, really seriously – then you must watch this.

Bernalillo NM Luncheon

27-Oct-09

The day’s borscht was grown a few hundred feet away. Except for the chicken sausage.

Last tomatoes of the season

25-Oct-09

Some of Bernalillo’s best tomatoes.

select-a-tweet with Baker Tweet

18-Sep-09

A delightful device – the Baker Tweet – brought into existence by the clever Wallaces over at Poke. The problem it solves? Letting the followers of your muffins know when fresh ones are ready. All without needing to dust off your hands to approach a computer. Turn a nob, press a button. This video is [...]

Favorite sandwiches

08-May-09

Reuben Pulled-pork bar-b-que Ham on baguette

Sourdough whole wheat bread

05-Apr-09

My previous at attempts to use whole wheat flour to bake bread were not exciting. I may have had one or two successes with a recipe from James Beard’s bread book.  Wednesday night I decided to give a new recipe a try. Following the recipe for whole wheat sourdough Miche from Daniel Leader’s Local Breads, [...]

Big Bread

16-Mar-09

Big bread Originally uploaded by normnode Mostly King Arthur Unbleached flour, but one cup of dark rye flour to add complexity and nutrition.