Here’s a quick little cooking post for you guys. Neither Marie nor I have ever had the opportunity to try an In-N-Out Burger, since we’ve never been that far west, but we do read the local blog Adventurous Tastes, of course, and last month, she posted about her recent experiences playing with a copycat recipe of the restaurant’s signature double-patty burger. She found this recipe at another blog called Buns in My Oven. Continue reading “Copycat In-N-Out Burgers”
Month: May 2013
Meskerem, Atlanta GA
Readers of many of the other food hobbyists in Atlanta have probably realized that our city is home to a handful of Ethiopian restaurants, but we were surprised to realize that almost all of them are located in one place. The old Williamsburg shopping center at Clairmont and Briarcliff has taken the nickname Ethopian Corner, because there are at least three places here – Meskerem, Ledet, and Dosta – which is kind of strange, when you think about it. Meskerem has been around since 2005 and, of the three, our friends Adam and Emily of Spatialdrift enjoy this one the most. They invited us to tear some injera with them here and we were happy to go in the company of people who knew what they were doing. If we’d have gone on our own, we’d have probably sat looking longingly at the food before flagging down a server and asking for some silverware. Continue reading “Meskerem, Atlanta GA”
Sweet Hut Bakery & Cafe, Doraville GA
Readers may recall that last week we included a chapter about our fun trip to BoBo Garden. Before we arrived, I had half a mind to pop across the street for dessert after we finished, because I’d been wanting to go to Sweet Hut with Marie since I first read about it. Her sweet tooth is, after all, sweeter than mine. This is a really neat little place that opened at the beginning of 2012 in the same strip mall as Quõc Húóng and the just-closed Fil-Am Star, a place that I really wanted to try. We didn’t go then, because we left BoBo Garden completely stuffed, and I resolved to go the next time we were in the area. Continue reading “Sweet Hut Bakery & Cafe, Doraville GA”
Hog Wild Barbeque, Douglasville GA
It has been a really long time since I had cause to preach about one of Georgia’s few barbecue specialties, what is called Hudson’s-style sauce after the fellow who concocted it. You see, one thing that I have always disliked about the broad brush that people use when they are talking about barbecue in terms of state-by-state is that they miss out on the details. Not very many writers, to give one example, paid any real attention to the golden orange mustard sauce of Columbus and east central Alabama until the good people of the Southern Foodways Alliance looked into it. And among Georgia’s other regional treats is the black-red vinegar “juice” that Buford Hudson concocted in the early 1960s. Continue reading “Hog Wild Barbeque, Douglasville GA”
Billy Bob’s Bar-B-Q, Carrollton GA
Consider this entry a prologue of sorts to something that I hope to come back to sometime in the summer. I have protested many times before that the occasionally great state of Georgia just has not had the attention paid to its barbecue that it deserves. In April, I took a drive out to Carrollton with Matt and Kelley to see a bookstore that turned out to be really quite wonderful. The road took us directly past one barbecue joint that I featured here some time back – Briar Patch – and, had we gone from the Marietta Square instead of my house, it would have been two, as we would have passed the excellent Dave Poe’s. Continue reading “Billy Bob’s Bar-B-Q, Carrollton GA”
Seasons 52’s Spring Menu
This is Marie, contributing an article about the latest update to the Seasons 52 menu. We received an invitation to try out the latest dishes as a lunch rather than the blogger group visit we’d had the last few times.You may have read our articles about previous visits, and rather than a big event with several entrees presented, Grant and I had a cozy meal by ourselves. We need to do a few more just-us lunches together. It’s been remarked before that the baby has been remarkably well-behaved in restaurants, but he is still a baby – or rather, a toddler, with all that implies – so good behavior still does require a good bit of attention and pre-planning. The last visit we took to Seasons 52 on our own dime, sometime last year, was apparently on a day when his wiggles were in particularly large supply, and it wasn’t the most successful of meals. This one made up for that last visit quite well. Continue reading “Seasons 52’s Spring Menu”
Rose of India, Chamblee GA
Rose of India is a newer restaurant in a very old building. It’s, I think, three doors north of Old Brick Pit on Peachtree. Years and years back, I came down from Alpharetta, where I then lived, for a meal at Old Brick Pit and found they’d closed for the evening, and ended up in this building instead. I am not sure what it was then, but it might have been a Tex-Mex joint. I definitely remembered the slanted walls and large windows, even if the visit made no other impact. Continue reading “Rose of India, Chamblee GA”
Marie, Let's Eat! 