Food

New Restaurant Tuesday, Enchiladas & a Monster

October 20, 2009 |

Since I spent the majority of Sunday planning this week’s menu (well, playing with a new program and planning meals), we needed to go grocery shopping and pick up all the items on my spiffy auto-generated list.   It was a surprisingly successful adventure.  Usually there are at least a few items that we cannot [...]

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A new recipe app, Salsa Verde, and a win for the Dawgs

October 18, 2009 |

I spent the majority of yesterday, planning my menu for the week. It has been a few weeks since I had made a solid menu and shopping list, instead just picking up things as I thought of them. I have many vegetables from Athens Locally Grown that were aging away in my fridge. In my [...]

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A Relaxing Saturday

August 30, 2009 |

Got up late so we had to head straight to the Athens Farmer’s Market. Having finished our shopping,  we stopped at Big City Bread Cafe for brunch. I ordered the Burgundy Mushroom Quiche and Darren had the Meat Omelette, containing soprasetta, arugala & olives. After putting away our bounty from the market, I began braising [...]

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Lunch at Cali-n-Tito’s

July 30, 2009 |

Lunch at our local “shack on the beach” is always a pleasure. Had the delicious chorizo cuban sandwich.

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Steak Dinner

October 31, 2008 |

Served with locally grown green beans and baked potatoes. [photoxhibit=27]

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Salmon grilled on Alder

September 9, 2008 |
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The Omnivore’s Hundred

August 23, 2008 |

The idea is to make bold everything I have eaten and cross out any items I would never consider eating. The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred: Venison Nettle tea Huevos rancheros Steak tartare Crocodile Black pudding Cheese fondue Carp Borscht Baba ghanoush Calamari Pho PB&J sandwich Aloo gobi Hot dog from a street cart Epoisses Black truffle [...]

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New Restaurant Tuesday 2/5/2008 Agua Linda Taqueria- Athens, GA

February 5, 2008 |

Very often a burrito is a good thing, sometimes even great. We needed some frozen dough disks to make some empanadas (I KNOW that empanadas are the new global warming! Stop telling me that.) We were headed to Normaltown to stop by the Mexican Grocery, so we parked at Agua Linda to have lunch. We [...]

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