What to roast next? Ah, the paradox of choice.
A selection of 13 different types of beans from Sweet Maria’s. There’s a healthy Ethiopian component, some El Salvador, one from Sumatra (guess which!) and some Guatemalans. I ended up choosing the El Salvador Siberia Estate Bourbon.
I did a short but intense solo training ride on Sunday. The weather was cold and I thought it’d be a good idea to try some intensity workouts as opposed to just putting in the miles. I ended up choosing a 32.7 mile ride with 4527 feet of climbing. I went up Claremont, along Grizzly Peak, down Euclid. Then I rode up Centennial, took Grizzly Peak to Skyline and went down Tunnel Rd. Tunnel was full of all kinds of stuff from the 3 weeks of rain. An entire portion of the road was covered with mud and gravel. There was debris in a bunch of places, which made for not such a great descent. Then, I rode back up Claremont and went down Grizzly Peak and Euclid again. Then I went home and took a nap.
I don’t have any photos from this ride as I just wanted to get a training ride in.
Vienna sausage cans in the rain on a paper Trader Joe’s bag
Another great drink from MA’velous: Stumptown Hairbender Cappuccino
A walk up polk st
bike lane, covered.
WE ROCK HARDEST - Ben Eine – bad ass.
Giraffe
googly eyes on BART
got off at ashby bart
I got out early this morning to check out the 2011 Oakland Marathon. I didn’t have it in me to try to try to run it again this year (especially with all of the cycling training) but it was really exciting to see the runners. I got out to around the 4.5 mile mark on College ave in front of Crossroads Trading and across from Toast and near miam miam (expensive, but probably the best frozen yogurt I’ve had)
This is Tegenu Beru from San Jose. He won the race wish a finishing time of 2:30:08. Damn.
He had a small entourage of cyclists surrounding him and preceding that were some police motorcycles and an official pickup truck.
Ivan Medina from Hayward finished 5th with a time of 2:44:33, but was in 2nd place at this point.
These guys were running together at this point in the race, but eventually Jesus Campos (#1003) pulled off to capture 2nd place with a time of 2:37:31. Tony Torres (#1000) still finished strongly at 4th place with a time of 2:38:45.
Anna Bretan took 1st place for women and 11th place overall with a strong finishing time of 2:53:19. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, this was her first marathon ever and the longest distance she’s run in her life.
Lori Buratto from Washington finished 2nd among women with a finishing time of 3:02:53.
They look happy!
Suet-Fei Li finished 3rd among women with a time of 3:03:25.
This guy was awesome.
By the way, she is ripped
Hawaiian shirt
This guy ran the marathon with a hemp shoulder bag.
Hard to see from the photo since I had switched out to a wide-angle lens, but this guy is “Endorphin Dude” and ran with a cape. Pretty sweet. Check out his website.
This is the second set of pictures from the Eating About Beer Winter 2011 dinner. The first set is available here.
Plating the third course: Guatemalan longaniza sausage with a roasted tomato salsa with fresh (homemade) cheese, grilled scallions and a black bean puree.
The evening’s wonderful guests
Sausage links. Tied with corn husks ties.
The third course. The cheese was a homemade queso fresco.
Plates lined up, almost ready for serving.
Describing the course and the beer to everyone.
This was a posed shot. “Act like you’re eating”
A lemon sherbet intermezzo.
Sherbet on plates
Lobster. In butter. lots of butter.
Prepping the lobster for serving
Crispy potato pyramids. Szechuan lemon pepper gastrique also went with the butter-poached lobster. The beer pairing was a Belgian pale ale.
Describing the dish and the beer
Plating the Fifth course: Beer-braised duck leg with a potato-celery root puree. Paired with a Belgian strong dark ale.
The sixth course: A bananas foster brulee.
The dessert was paired with a dunkelweizen.
the end. I hope you’ve enjoyed the photos. If you liked them, leave me a comment or something (unless you’re a robot who will leave a spammy message). If you’d like to know about the next event, check out Eating About Beer’s website or their twitter feed: @EatingAboutBeer.
