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Archive for April, 2010
Currently Craving: Holeman and Finch Public House
Apr 22nd
“The Burger”, at Holeman and Finch Public House, here in Atlanta, GA. While a good standby favorite (on the occasion you can actually score one), I’ve enjoyed everything else off the menu that I’ve tried there. Pork belly, pig tail, charcuterie – I’m ready to explore the rest of the menu.
White Lasagna
Apr 21st
This is something I definitely need to try. I must have some kind of penchant towards ordinarily-red-but-adapted-to-be-white Italian foods – white pizza, alfredo/pesto pastas, cannolis (okay that’s always been white). In fact, I think I usually prefer the white version over their red counterparts (please don’t hurt me, Italian readers).
Anyways, I saw this via Twitter from Adam (@amateurgourmet) who authors The Amateur Gourmet, one of the many food blogs I’m constantly perusing through. As he is an ex-Atlantan, I subconsciously instill more faith in his food-brain and tastebuds. Besides, if you peruse deep enough, you’ll see that he manages to bang out some serious stuff out of a not-so-big New York apartment kitchen. That alone is quite impressive.
So here’s the recipe (after the jump), shamelessly stolen off his site. The whole vegetarian thing sets off some serious red flags, but I’m sure a little pork shoulder or roast chicken should fix it right up. I really like how it’s been borrowed and tweaked via a variety of sources. Crowd-sourced recipes are great! (By the way, consider this to be my official claim of ownership and inventorship of the phrase “crowd-sourced recipes” and all its punctuational and capitalization varietals.)
From http://www.amateurgourmet.com/2010/04/white_lasagna.html:
Home Away from Home / Office Away from Office
Apr 5th
As I’ve been mentally calculating the drastic unbalance between hours in a day and hours of work that need to get done by a certain point in time, it’s glaringly apparent that it’s not all going to get done during office hours. In reality, it probably isn’t all going to get done during waking hours.
This means that I need to find myself an office away from the office. The real office is just too far of a drive – and too quiet, if there was such a thing, and working at home is far too distracting with all my little toys and whatnot. No, what I need is a chair, a table, some ambient noise, preferably coffee, and a subtle distraction every now and again.
My ex-go-to-places have started to get overrun by…outsiders. White Windmill, Maum as a desperate second, even Library Coffee despite them having all of 4 outlets for the entire place.
What I need is a new hidden gem. Somewhere where I can hide that no one else really knows about. Somewhere like White Windmill a year or two ago.
Anyone want to share their secret place with me?
Or do I really need to go open one up for myself?