We’ve been having a ton of fun exploring some new restaurants outside the home. This has mostly come thanks to the great site Deals in Atlanta. It basically brings together all of the Atlanta area’s daily deals for us to review. We then take the time to find a new restaurant to try every week. We’re not into daily deals for anything except the food, so it’s nice to review that site and get all of the deal sites in one place. We’ve found some real gems and it gets me out of the kitchen!
A lot of what I do would be described as Lowcountry cuisine. This type of food is popular in both Georgia and South Carolina. Most people are probably more familiar with Cajun cuisine from New Orleans, but the two are actually very similar. Here are some examples of my favorite foods to make from the Lowcountry food repertoire: She-crab soup, Okra soup, Oyster roast, Frogmore stew, Charleston red rice, baked Mac-n-Cheese. There are other great parts of lowcountry cuisine, but these are some of my favorites. I will put up some recipes soon!
I am struggling to find some good recipes using walnuts. I’d like to keep it in my southern roots style, but want to use walnuts. I’ve been on a big nut kick as the positive benefits of using nuts in cooking and as snacks continue to come out. I’m especially interested in walnuts because of the supposed benefits.