Posts tagged “Austin”

Weekend Moments #4

Posted on February 12th, 2012

Hey everyone!

This weekend:

  • On Friday, Aimee and I had a meeting and photo shoot up north. I stopped at Asahi Imports for some ingredients for recipe testing, then came home and tested two recipes. We stayed in and ate chocolate drumsticks.
  • On Saturday, we took a city walk with our friends N. and E. We walked all over the place, and stopped for coffee at Caffe Medici in Clarksville, and Sweetish Hill, and the farmers’ market, and Design Within Reach, and Easy Tiger, and the Museum of the Weird, and another Caffe Medici, and the Lomo shop, and the library, and BookPeople and lots of other spots. When we got home, Justin crashed and finally gave in to his cold. We watched Water for Elephants and rested.
  • On Sunday, we stayed in and focused on helping Justin feel better with medicines and juices and soups and blankets. And I’m reading Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, because I love Kurt Vonnegut.

I hope you all had a great weekend, too!♥

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Weekend Moments

Posted on January 22nd, 2012

Hi guys! I made another video of tiny moments of my weekend. I tried to keep each clip really short, so it would just be a kind of glimpse at things. Details: On Friday we met friends at Nubian Queen Lola’s for dinner. We shared gumbo with cornbread. I had the best fried catfish and shrimp with cabbage and yams, and Justin had the most awesome pork chop sandwich ever. Lola cooks and serves every dish herself. She sat down at our table to take our order, and each time we chose something, (“I’d like the cabbage, please”), she’d say, “Ooooh, you’re gonna love that.” She’s amazing. After dinner we hopped over to the Volstead for drinks. Justin (the bartender) whipped up some lovely…

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Thunderheart Bison: Ranch to Trailer

Posted on November 28th, 2011

So there’s a new food trailer near our place (on West 5th Street, between Baylor and Walsh), run by the peeps who own Thunderheart Bison. We walked down there the other day and tried a few things. This is the Asian steak salad – tender bison sirloin, greens, tomatoes, crunchies, and sesame dressing. This was seriously good! In the background is the soft bison taco, which also had a really great flavor and fresh toppings. We also tried the oxtail pho. You don’t expect to get pho from a trailer, but this was a satisfying, rich and deep soup, perfect for the winter. Justin didn’t get much of this, because I hogged it all up. The broth was so beefy! (Bison-y?) We were really…

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Monday

Posted on October 10th, 2011

A few things on my to-do list: read my friend Steve’s article in Best Food Writing 2011 (!!!); write to pen pals; figure out schedule for Austin Film Festival. Had lunch with lovely friends at Buenos Aires Cafe. I have no idea how they make beef tenderloin so darn tender. Bela visits us every day now. He and Roux are friends through the screen. Spent the evening at Contigo.   Erin and Justin spent a lot of time picking the perfect mescal. Erin was impeccably dressed, as always.   I chose the Old-Fashioned as my drink for the evening. We had olives, pigs-in-blankets, white bean dip, ox tongue sliders, crispy green beans, blueberry shortcake, and a smore (with sweetened lardo instead of marshmallow creme).…

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