Food
A food section for actual life: where to eat, what to cook, what to pour, and what to make when you have twenty minutes and zero interest in washing nine pans.
No food snobbery required.
Good can mean a chef counter, a neighborhood carryout, or something you made before the next Zoom call.
Go out
Worth the drive, worth the wait, or worth knowing before everybody else does.
Stay in
Cookable food. Clear steps. No seventeen-paragraph childhood story before the ingredients.
Daily pour
Cocktails, zero-proof drinks, coffee, teas, and the occasional “what is that?” worth trying.
On the go
Fast meals for workdays, parents, late nights, and people who remembered dinner at 8:17.
Restaurants
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East Point
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Marietta
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Douglasville
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Smyrna
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Hapeville
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Smyrna
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Jonesboro
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Jonesboro
Recipes
Recipe of the Week
Changes weekly
20 minutes
Black beans, shredded cheese, tortillas, salsa, lime. Crisp them in a skillet and dinner is handled.
Cheap, fast, and easy to scale when somebody suddenly says they are hungry too.
15 minutes
Shrimp, microwave rice, garlic, frozen vegetables, lemon, and a little butter or olive oil.
The microwave rice is not cheating. The goal is dinner.
One pan
Refrigerated tortellini, jarred marinara, spinach, parmesan. Very little ceremony.
Comfort food with one pan to wash.
25 minutes
Fully cooked smoked sausage, bell peppers, onion, olive oil, smoked paprika, and mustard.
Use a fully cooked sausage and follow the package reheating directions.
Drink of the Day
Today's Pour
Changes daily
Zero proof
Ginger beer, fresh lime, sparkling water, and a lot of ice.
Sharp, cold, and not trying to imitate a cocktail.
Coffee
Tonic water over ice with espresso floated on top and a strip of orange peel.
Bitter, bright, weird the first sip, better by the third.
Iced tea
Unsweet tea, lemonade, and a spoonful of peach nectar or puree.
Summer behavior without needing summer weather.
Zero proof
Pineapple juice, lime, mint, and club soda.
The mint makes it smell more complicated than it is.
Tea
Tart hibiscus tea, lemon, ice, and a little honey if you want it sweeter.
Bright red, tart, and built for a big glass.
Zero proof
Cucumber, lime, sparkling water, and a pinch of salt.
Clean and simple when everything else today was not.
Zero proof
Orange juice, lemon, sparkling water, and a little honey.
Basically sunshine with bubbles.
Quick Meals
Tonight's Shortcut
Changes daily
10 minutes
Microwave rice, rotisserie chicken, bagged slaw, avocado, and whatever sauce is winning today.
12 minutes
Leftover rice, eggs, frozen peas, soy sauce, and scallions.
10 minutes
Boil refrigerated tortellini, toss with pesto, and wilt spinach into the hot pasta.
8 minutes
Beans, cheese, tortillas, salsa. A skillet and almost no patience required.
10 minutes
A hot sandwich and a shortcut bowl of soup still counts as making dinner.
8 minutes
Tuna salad, tortilla, shredded lettuce, pickles, and chips for crunch.
7 minutes
Chickpeas, cucumber, tomato, feta, olives, lemon, and olive oil.