bread, high altitude baking, local food, sandwich bread
In Cooking on February 26, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I am at it again. This time I decided to try some sandwich bread as my kids are bottomless PB&J fans. I have been spending $3-$4 on a loaf from the store and thought this might help pinch some pennies. I got the recipe from A Year in Bread, Susan’s Farmhouse White. I am still endding up with bread that is a little too moist in the middle. I already increased the cooking time by about 15 minutes but I might cook it still a little longer.
Maybe I need to check the oven temperature to see if my oven is a little cold. This was the same problem I had with the no-knead bread. All in all the bread itself was wonderful and when I get this one down I think I will give the Honey Bran Whole Wheat a try.
local food, local shopping, santa fe farmers market
In Shopping on January 25, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Here’s a great picture of some bread from the farmers market.
This was the crowd at the market yesterday. It is definitely bigger in the summer but there is still plenty of great stuff! We picked up beef, pork, parsnips, salsa, chili powder and some Gouda goat cheese.
This is the new building that houses everything in the winter months.
And this is were all the vendors are when the season really gets started and it warms up. The Santa Fe Farmers Market doesn’t allow vendors that aren’t within a 100 miles of Santa Fe so I know everything I got here was local.
cooking from scratch, local food, spagetti sauce
In Cooking on January 21, 2009 at 9:43 pm
This is my local Santa Fe style spaghetti sauce. Basically I sauteed some onion and garlic in some olive oil, chopped up tome tomatoes and added a little honey and balsamic vinegar. Then I simmered it until it was thick added the corn and pine nuts and salt to taste. Sometimes I like this with black beans too. If you like meatballs you could make those too. Of course no meatballs is lower calories.
I always use cast iron pans as it added a little iron to my diet and I don’t have to worry about off gases or chemicals leaching from a scratched pan.
Picked up a few things from the coop today: bread from Chocolate Maven, eggs from Rancho Capilla, local pomegranates and some goat cheese from Colorado that was marked down.
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