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Shout out to Gene's BBQ in Atlanta. The best way to describe this place is a bar with a kid's menu. It isn't really a BBQ joint as I think of one, but sort of an Asian/BBQ fusion dive. The atmosphere was warm and friendly with a ceiling full of string lights. The martini was decent, my blue crab claws were pretty good in some variation of an Asian sauce. My son-in-law, a brisket lover, declared his brisket to be very good. The twins were happy with their mac n cheese and thrilled with their dessert which was really just a pineapple coconut smoothie that was deceptively delicious and which we all agreed might be good with a splash of rum. The surprising star was the banh mi with charred crackly sort-of- barbecued pork, proper pickled vegetables in a Viet roll. Highly recommended as a great place for families. Oh, and I don't want to forget the fact that the girls found a basket of free lollipops soon after we walked in and that kept them busy until the food arrived. What's not to love? As always by the end of our visits, my husband and I are fried and no longer in the mood to cook, and also as usual, the new crop of mosquitoes has dined out ON ME, so I'm over eating al fresco at dusk. Another few meals and we are headed home.

Thick Veggie Stew with Caramelized Sweet Potato and Smoked Pancetta Sauce

Nominative determination pays off yet again

If it's the Campari tomatoes from Windset Farms, they are a Canadian company but they have greenhouses in both Canada and US. They grow Campari tomatoes in their Santa Maria, California greenhouses so you should be able to get those ok. Here in the Delta, BC greenhouses they grow more of the Avalantino variety which are also very good. Similar to Campari but maybe a tad bigger and labeled as Vivo tomatoes. They also have a variety of other tomatoes, plus cukes and peppers. https://windsetfarms.com/about-windset/

EGULLET WORKSHOP SCHEDULE Friday May 16, 2025 8:30 am Meet at TCF Sales 720 S Bell Blvd 2D Cedar Park 12ish Lunch (provided) 4:30 Cleanup 6:30 Dinner at Dos Salsas Private Room Order off menu 1600 E Whitestone Blvd Cedar Park BRING YOUR TREATS TO SHARE Saturday May 17, 2025 8:30 TCF Sales 12ish Lunch (provided) 4:30 Cleanup Dinner on your own Sunday May 18, 2025 8:30 TCF Sales No lunch today 12 Drawing 2:00 Cleanup

Thanks for starting this thread, @Duvel, and great to see you back on eGullet! It was just my husband and me this year. We started with a simple little gems - heirloom tomato salad, and homemade confit garlic and sun-dried tomato focaccia. For the main course, I made a classic mustard-crusted and garlic-studded rack of lamb and Kenji’s best crispy roast potatoes (which disintegrated a bit, but were very tasty). I just love a good rack of lamb and this was perfect!

A traditional Indonesian padang classic - ayam balado. I'm sure when we're in Jakarta in July, I'll have something balado-ified every day.

Yikes.... I hope she never travels to Indonesia, Malaysia or Singapore... they put turmeric in EVERYTHING!

Chicken and chickpea curry with roti

Gaylene and I took a boatload of photos of Bob's book when we were in Toronto. Have I tried any of them since - nope! But I can bring my iPad and folks can sift through the photos of the recipes I took to see if they were interested in trying any.

I can help you with the salted caramel

Scrambled eggs with leftover pork loin, flavored with three kinds of chiles (jalapeno, long red, and roasted Poblano), shallots, garlic, cumin seed, scallions, Thai basil, and feta in brine (which melted into the eggs).

A couple of quick dinners from this week. Roasted gnocchi with cherry tomatoes, broccoli and chicken sausage Sir fried noodles with bok choy, roasted oyster mushrooms, and my nephew grilled some pork tenderloin to add for those who wanted meat in it

@lemniscate nice tip. Ill look for these.

Frozen mushrooms are suspect usually but I heartily enjoy the newish frozen sliced shitake mushrooms that TJ's offers now. I've used in scrambled eggs, for bison burger topping and in ramen noodles. Really good, very intense flavor from just a few slices. Easy to keep in the freezer a bit here or there use. I used to buy their frozen mushroom medley, but it declined in quality to me over the last few years, I think it's been discontinued anyway.

Speaking of curry, my nephew's wife has discovered that she is allergic to turmeric. She breaks out in a rash. It took her years to figure this out. Weird, right? I'm glad I didn't make Lemony Turmeric Tea Cake for her. That's Alison Roman's brilliant recipe, which does not taste like turmeric at all but had a fabulous color. Speaking of grouper....OMG this is really my favorite fish of all time. Last night, courtesy of the remarkable DeKalb Farmers' Market, I made blackened grouper. This was probably my last time eating grouper for this trip, too too bad. I prefer the red grouper to the black, and that's what I got. It was delicious. Every time I come to visit my daughter and her family I bring her Hot Cajun Blackening Spice from Oaktown Spice in Oakland. It's simply the best. I can buy about twenty different versions of the stuff here in Atlanta, but all of them are too salty and not as good. So last night I had west coast blackened east coast fish.

Curry is always on my menu when he's gone! (I love when he's at hunting camp for a month- all curry, all the time). Last night I was craving pasta so- shrimp, tomatoes, garlic and Rummo gf pasta.

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Thank you, red cabbage is a good looker! An unusual combo but quite tasty.

I love your salad picture!

Lunch the other day was a quiche filled with broccoli, cauliflower,diced ham, tomatoes,herbs and Irish cheddar cheese. The salad was red cabbage, Clementine segments, radish, chives, pulverized fennel seeds, vinaigrette.

A simple little cake made in the FP, topped with almonds . A dollop of cream and berry compote made for “good eats”.

Cacio e Pepe Polenta: Bob's Red Mill corn meal cooked with the addition of Kampot black pepper, 12-month aged Pecorino Romano, and a small pat of unsalted Kerry Gold butter, accompanied by some strong Himalayan black tea. I don't have my glasses handy this morning so I hope the image looks OK.