Dining
Ruby K’s Celebrates Eighth Birthday and Extends Hours
Employees of Ruby K’s Bagel Café show off their bagel costumes. Courtesy photoBy Mandy Marksteiner
Ruby K’s Bagel Café is about to reach a milestone and achieve a goal. The restaurant is approaching its eighth anniversary and will extend their hours.
Ruby K’s will have its “Eighth Birthday Party Celebration” Feb 22 and 23. The restaurant will serve samples of its new menu items and smoothies.
The celebration also will include prize drawings, face painting, glitter tattoos, balloon animals and cupcake decorating.
Ruby K’s will stay open until 7 p.m. beginning March Read More
Knapp’s Wraps Mobile Eatery For Sale
Knapps Wraps owner Gary Knapp prepares a couple of breakfast burritos at his mobile restaurant in White Rock Wednesday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Knapps Wrapps has been in business since 2006. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
Knapp’s Wraps mobile eatery has been a familiar sight at 128 N.M. 4 in White Rock but that’s about to change.
Owners Gary and Cindy Knapp plan to leave the state and have put the business up for sale.
“It was appraised at $200,000 but we are asking $150,000,” Gary Knapp told Read More
UNM-LA Offers Wine Tasting Class
UNM-LA News:Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but you can continue the sentiment by enrolling yourself and your sweetheart in a wine tasting class.
Sign up for three Saturdays of tasting with wine expert and European licensed sommelier Liz Berdugo. Learn what makes a wine good, what your palette enjoys most, and how to order the proper wine for any occasion or meal.
UNM-Los Alamos Community Education will offer “Introduction to Wine Tasting and Collecting” (CE: L1241 | CRN: 30198). The class meets 3:30-5 p.m. Saturday Feb. 23, March 2 and March 9 at the Pajarito Brew Pub (location has changed Read More
Food on the Hill: Rice Pudding
This Week’s Recipe:
Rice Pudding
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comIngredients…
3 1/3 cups whole milk
1 large orange- zested (use zest only)
1 1/2 lemon -zested (use zest only)
7 Tablespoons long grain rice
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/3 cup heavy cream
Directions…
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comPut everything but the vanilla in a 2 quart non-stick pan and cook on stove top on very low until rice is tender, stir every few minutes, watch the rice carefully so it does not burn.
Refrigerate Read More
IHM Holds Friday Fish Fries
IHM News:
It is Fish Fry time again at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall, 5 to 7 p.m. Fridays during Lent.
The dinners are sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and proceeds will benefit Nuestros Pequenos Orphanage in Honduras and other charities.
Adult plates are $10 and have two pieces of cod, with coleslaw and rice or french fries, plus a drink and dessert.
Children may have one piece of fish or a grilled cheese sandwich with all the rest for $7 a plate. Read More
Help Rotary Purchase AED for Fuller Lodge
Help Rotary Purchase AED for Fuller LodgeBy Linda Hull, President 2012-13
Rotary Club of Los Alamos
Ahoy, Los Alamos! It’s time for Rotary’s fourth Annual Crab Fest, and you are all cordially invited: Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Knights of Columbus Hall on the corner of Trinity Drive and DP Road.
Proceeds from the event will help the Rotary Club purchase an automatic external defibrillator (AED) for Fuller Lodge.
This all-you-can-eat crab and prawn dinner, our Club’s biggest fundraiser of the year, is served family-style with coleslaw, beans, rolls, dessert and beverages. (There Read More
Valentine’s Day Farmers Market Today at Fuller Lodge
Farmer’s Market News:
A Valentine’s Day Farmer’s Market will take place 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. today, Thursday, Feb. 14 at Fuller Lodge.
Vendors include:
- Ranchline: Lamb – Contact Todd to order beef at 866-402-2836 or info@ranchlineallnatural.com
- Joy Robertshaw: Yak meat and knitting yarn – Contact her at 575-776-5165 or jrobertshaw@taosnet.com
- Cindy Stone: Salves, ointments and creams
- Dave Vargo: Pizzas, cookies, breads, coffee cakes sticky buns and more
- Ed &Michael: Goat cheese spreads and cow’s milk butter and cheese.
- Kelly Graham from Lavender Acres: Body
Sample Asian Winter Cuisine at Co-op ‘Shop with the Chef’ Event
Chef Ara Whetten will teach students to prepare Thai green chicken curry at Los Alamos Co-op Market Feb. 26.Courtesy phtoto.CO-OP MARKET News:
Join Chef Ara Whetten and learn to prepare Thai green chicken curry with coconut milk at the next Los Alamos Co-op Market Shop with the Chef class.
The class takes place 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Co-op. The cost is $15 for Co-op members or $20 for non-members. Stop by the Co-op to register, but hurry! There are only nine spaces remaining in the class.
“Growing up in South Korea, I would watch my mother cook traditional Korean food over a coal fire. Read More
Food on the Hill: Cooking for Valentine’s Day II
This Week’s Recipe:
Quiche Lorraine
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com
For Valentine’s Day, I have two recipes that ANYONE can cook. I feel it is very important that you show the people that you love (sweethearts, family and friends) that you think they are important. Surprise your loved ones with a great dinner. Last week’s recipe was Cherry Chocolate Cake. This week’s is as easy as you can get, if you can make scrambled eggs you can make this. I tried to get everything in this dish pre-made, and that is what makes it so easy. Special thanks to Sam Montoya for helping Read More