Restaurant Review: Cocina Azul Does New Mexican Near Old Town New Mexican For The Old Guard One morning while waiting for a plate of huevos rancheros at Cocina Azul, some sort of meeting started taking place at a group [...] Ari LeVaux \ Aug 12, 2010 Read More
Mina’s Dish: Mom’s Scrapple Recipe With A New Mexican Kick Nostalgia With A New Mexican Kick I grew up the oldest of six kids in a Japanese-American family. My mom honed her cooking skills working at her aunt and [...] Mina Yamashita \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More
Abq Beer Geek: Results From The 2010 New Mexico Ipa Challenge From 10 Breweries And Hundreds Of Judges, One Beer Emerged Victorious Thanks to my nightly ritual of “adult NyQuil,” also known as beer, I rarely have a hard time sleeping. But the eve of [...] ABQ Beer Geek \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More Everyone’s a critic ... (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Ask Ari: Filling The Late-Summer Gaps In Your Garden Q: In harvesting some of my earlier crops, like lettuce, and in pulling bolting crops like spinach, I’ve opened up some holes in [...] Ari LeVaux \ Aug 05, 2010 Read More (woodleywonderworks)
Restaurant Review: Kingdom Come Hungry To Noah’s Ark Café Kingdom Come Hungry A great flood didn’t carry Edward and Iolanda Johnson from New Orleans to Albuquerque in 2005, but Katrina had something to do with [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jul 29, 2010 Read More Lola Brandon, a cashier, waits to greet customers at the biblical, soul food café. (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)
Mina's Dish: Coop And Garden Tour Showcases Flourishing Of Urban Farmingin The Duke City 2010 Coop And Garden Tour July 31 Through Aug. 1 Jennifer Dwyer launched the Albuquerque Chicken Coop Tour two years ago. Her idea was to connect people who raised chickens with people who [...] Mina Yamashita \ Jul 29, 2010 Read More
Field Of Greens: The Right Way To Work Meat Into Your Lettuce The Right Way To Work Meat Into Your Lettuce Commercial salads these days seem designed for people who don’t like salad. They’re essentially meat entrées served on a bed of leaves, minus [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jul 22, 2010 Read More Peas and mutton make a marvelous meal. (Ari LeVaux)
Mina's Dish: Albuquerque Doughnut Round-Up Mina's Dish: Albuquerque Doughnut Round-Up Nothing beats the sugary fragrance of tender, fried dough. The doughnut is a pastry made to be eaten fresh—best with morning coffee or [...] Mina Yamashita \ Jul 22, 2010 Read More A dozen from Enchantment Chocolate (Mina Yamashita)
Mina's Dish: Beneficial Farms Community Supported Agriculture Takes Root In Albuquerque Beneficial Farms Community Supported Agriculture I’m glad that eating organic is easier than it used to be. Conventional supermarkets offer some organic produce. Natural food markets abound. It [...] Mina Yamashita \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More A weekly share (Beneficial Farms CSA)
Restaurant Review: Havana Restaurant Brings Cuban Food To Albuquerque Where Salsa Is Music, Habaneros Are People And Pork Is King It came as a surprise to me that Cuban food isn’t spicy, especially since residents of the Cuban capital La Habana bear the [...] Ari LeVaux \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More Flan (Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com)