Foodoro (Cooking For Engineers)

The Cooking for Engineers blog has new content only occasionally, but when it does, I often find it interesting. As a (former) engineer who likes to cook, I must be in their target demographic! Anyway, this mention of a Bay-Area website Foodoro seemed worth sharing:

Foodoro is an online marketplace where people buy products directly from independent food producers (Foodoro refers to them as “foodmakers”). According to Jay, their goal is “to connect independent foodmakers directly with their customers” and it does seem like the website is geared towards that goal.

Foodoro – Cooking For Engineers.

Re: Snowy Days and Hot Soup (Dorie Greenspan)

I enjoy reading Dorie Greenspan’s blog for two reasons: She’s a great cook, and she often writes in a quite down-to-earth way about her Paris neighborhood (in the 6th arrondissement). During our pilgrimage to France in September 2009, we stayed just on the easternmost edge of the 6th (on the Boulevard Saint Michel) in two different hotels. So the neighborhood and the places she describes feel very familiar to us.

This entry is about snow in Paris, a walk to the Marché Saint-Germain market and back home around the Luxembourg Gardens, and a favorite vegetable soup. Both the market and the gardens were on our itinerary during our days in Paris, and her blog entry helps keep the memories alive.

No-knead bread (first loaf)

First no-knead loaf waiting to cool
First no-knead loaf waiting to cool

Fresh from the oven, here’s my first loaf of bread from Mark Buttman’s recipe. It’s crackling as it cools while I write. The kitchen smells fantastic, and I can’t wait to taste the bread.
[brief pause while the bread cools and I eat lunch]
Flavor is amazingly rich. Crumb is firm and chewy with numerous holes. Crust is thick and crackly. Amazing with butter, or without. A success — I’ll do it again!