Today, I am happy to welcome Mary to the spatialdrift fold. Longtime readers know her from n00bcakes, !blog, and as the mistress of the cake at my wedding. As of yesterday we merged all of the back-posts for both of her blogs into the database here at spatialdrift, and all of her awesome content is […]
Outside of maybe burgers, fried chicken is probably the single most discussed food item in the Atlanta dining scene. Even when guests come to visit, the question is always “where can I find the best fried chicken?”. Similar to going to Memphis or North Carolina and asking “where you can find the best BBQ?”, it […]
I made a roast chicken this week and whoa daddy was it awesome. Have you ever made a small tweak to a recipe and had it turn out incredibly better than the original? That’s what happened to me and this chicken. When I was living at home my mom used this roast chicken recipe pretty […]
I recently went to Stockyard Burgers And Bones on the Marietta Square with my husband and parents, to celebrate my mom’s birthday and Mother’s Day. We started off our meal with a little seating snafu. The space is a bit tight, so they were seating four people at what I consider to be two-person tables; […]
Naanstop started out in 2011 as a food truck in Los Angeles, and became a brick-and-mortar operation in downtown Atlanta in 2012. Now there also is a second location in Buckhead, and that is the location I visited. I’ve actually visited three times so far, due to the convenience and quality of the food. I’ve […]
A couple Bacon Week-years ago one of the recipes I made was “Maple Bourbon Bacon Jam” – a recipe I ruined pretty hardcore. At the time I claimed I wanted to try again in the future, and this year I figured, why not let that future be now? This Bacon Jam Redux turned out way […]
I’m not sure if it’s a hallmark of getting older, but brunch has easily become my favorite meal of the day. I’ve always loved breakfast (coming from a food-filled northern-turned-southern family, we threw ourselves into the biscuits and gravy-filled world of southern breakfasts with gusto), so it was a great treat to be invited by […]
Greetings, and happiest of new years to you all! Welcome to a new year at Spatialdrift, one I’m very glad to be a part of. I’ve been out of town for a few months for work (sorry about that), and it’s nice to be back and preparing for a year of baking, cooking, and blogging. […]
With summer here I’m always looking for new, cold recipes for lunch. My default lunch is a simple kale hash that’s always savory and delicious, but when it’s 80 degrees outside, hot eggs are a lot less appealing. Sometimes it’s nice to shake things up with a light, cold main course. Bring in the Salmon […]
A couple of weeks back, Mary and I went to the Atlanta Street Food Festival to grab some food trucks. Sadly, we didn’t get to try as many as we wanted – the lines to get in, especially for pre-paid tickets were awful, the crowds were pressing, the sun was brutal, and the heat was, […]
A few weeks back after spending some time co-working, Mary and I scooted up to Muss & Turner’s for a lunch with some friends and former coworkers of hers. Founded and run by the same folks as Local Three Kitchen & Bar, Muss & Turner’s is a deli-style restaurant first opened as a gourmet grocery […]
Can you believe it? Today is the spatialdrift’s four-year blogerversary! It all started out in 2010 with a half-baked idea to make something to write regularly, a post about making sushi at home on a free Blogspot blog, and no small amount of inspiration coming from working closely with consummate bloggers Lar and Cath of […]
After chowing down at I Luv Pho last week, Adam, Mary and I headed down to Pan Chapin for some dessert. Pan Chapin is located right above Quickly in the same two-story building that houses Tempo Doeloe and Bei Jing Kabobs. We popped in and immediately felt out of place in the tight interior. Feeling […]
The Buford Highway location of the I Luv Pho mini-chain is located in the same shopping center as Master Bakery, across the street from the highly visible Sweet Hut. It’s a fairly large, two-story vietnamese joint that opened in October ’13. Adam and I checked it out during the soft opening but at the time […]
To wrap up Bacon Week 2014, we took that good batch of beer-glazed bacon and made bacon fudge! I got this idea on Pinterest as well, but I didn’t like the approach outlined by the site I saw, so I flew by the seat of my pants on this one, too. We started with the […]
Our next Bacon Week cooking adventure is a fairly simple soup featuring a half-pound of bacon. The inspiration and the basic recipe is from Mrs. Ellwood’s Simple Life and was found on Pinterest. I’ve never made chickpea soup before, but the hubs and I frequently enjoy lentil soup, split pea soup, and bean-heavy chilis, so […]
Hello hello! Bacon Week, it comes every year and it’s here again! Starting next Monday, n00bcakes begins its 4th annual week of bacon recipes. Will you be joining us? First of all, if you don’t know about Bacon Week, I highly suggest you read my basic summary here. It’ll tell you what in the world is […]
Caveat: This is a lunch review. King + Duke is a restaurant that recently opened in Buckhead and is part of a group of restaurants that seem to be elevating the overall quality of food in the area. In an area where steakhouses are in abundance, places like this, Seven Lamps, St. Cecilia, and other […]