After the mess of 2020, 2021 provides the opportunity to start fresh. Why not turn a new page with your eating, drinking and cooking? Here, some easy ways to stick to your resolutions this year.
If you’re trying to eat healthier...
Start in your own kitchen by cooking health-conscious dishes without sacrificing flavor. To start, try making roasted squash carbonara, mujadara, pork tenderloin with apples and snap peas and roasted garlic and parsnip puree. Cook a healthy recipe every week with these recipes.
Trying to reduce or eliminate your meat consumption? Order takeout from one of more than 25 vegan and vegetarian restaurants in metro Atlanta, or plant the seeds of a lifestyle change with these vegan recipes.
If you’re trying to drink less...
There are plenty of delicious options if you are cutting out the booze this Dry January and beyond. Raise the bar on zero-proof cocktails at home with recipes from metro Atlanta restaurants, including a pineapple turmeric soda from Botiwalla and the Figgin’ Delicious from Southern Belle, and stock your bar with non-alcoholic spirits like Kentucky 74 and Seedlip. Want to have someone else do the bartending? Ask one of these local spots to mix up a zero-proof drink for you.
If you’re trying to experiment more in the kitchen...
Make a resolution to cook smarter in 2021 with cookbooks that help explain the science behind cooking and baking and the craft of cocktails, with recipes for mastering bread and mixing up the perfect cocktail. There are plenty of other cookbooks that can help you meet any of your cooking, baking or drink-making goals. Check out these books for living your best cocktail life, and upping your day-to-day cooking game. Also resolve to bond with your kids in the kitchen with these cookbooks and recipes, and treat yourselves after you’ve whipped up your dishes with these kid-friendly treats.
If you’re trying to be more socially conscious with your spending...
Supporting local small businesses is more important than ever. Getting takeout from local restaurants (and tipping well!) will increase the chances your favorite spots survive. Check out this list of more than 200 metro Atlanta eateries for ordering takeout. Looking for locally-made food products? Get everything from mac and cheese and jams to biscuits and juices made right here in Georgia, plus lots of other kitchen and cooking items from local producers and makers. And don’t forget about your favorite local craft brewery — here are some new ones to try.
If it’s important to you to support female and minority-owned businesses, check out more than 80 female-owned metro Atlanta restaurants and 300 Black-owned local restaurants, coffee shops, bars and food businesses.
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