This post bears bringing over from my other blog because DANG TAMALES ARE GOOD and I’d love to give Austin blogger (vlogger?) Hilah a hearty shoutout for being a) hilarious and b) awesome at cooking. We (my amazing twinkie from DC and her lovely boyfriend) made tamales for New Year’s Eve and they were just…
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Tamale Tamale Tamale
I tweeted a lot about these babies, and external sources have confirmed: TAMALES ARE AWESOME!! Particularly these tamales. That I made. These are my 3 flavors. I was inspired to make tamales thanks to a new ridiculously awesome Austin blog called HilahCooking.com. Check it out. These are the video instructions I followed (I used vegetable…
Austin: Get Olivia to Cater
Yes, one of my fave restaurants in Austin is now catering for Christmas! This is James. He is neat. In what he describes as an effort to forge a deeper connection with his clientele while bringing the “local is better” message home, Chef James Holmes of Olivia (one of my top ten must-dos in Austin) has launched…
Gobble Gobble Thanksgiving Happs
There are tons of lists of restaurants open on Thanksgiving. Here’s the one for Austin. Here’s the one for Aspen. Thus, I have no need to make lists. I will give you just one recommendation. Austin: 24 Diner How awesome is this? Family-style menu served at your table with three meat dishes, two types of…
Austin: FREE Lunch Revealed!
Whoever said there’s no … oh geez, that’s a tired joke. Literally, not one but TWO places are offering you FREE LUNCH tomorrow. Free Lunch #1: Pei Wei Thai Laarb Tomorrow, Tuesday October 26th, Pei Wei is giving out free lunch to the first 250 fans who show up from 12-1pm–at an undisclosed location ……
Austin: Truffle Oil, Blood Orange Oil and Fig Balsamic … Oh My! [UPDATED]
[UPDATE!] This dinner was postponed to October 13 AND still has seats available–snatch one up today!! For my birthday, a lovely friend of mine got me a bottle of white truffle olive oil. Can you imagine? I am obviously now obsessed. So when I got an email about a FINO’s Chef’s Table Series dinner with…
Austin: Snap Kitchen Update
Snap Kitchen. Everything about it is so right. The store – you walk in to an airy, all-windowed place with bright green floors, bamboo counters and tables, white plastic chairs, and bright orange accoutrements. There are no walls, save some muddled clear walls defining a main office and registered dietician’s office. That’s right–there’s a full…
Austin: Free Bottle of Wine …
… with the purchase of two lunches or dinners at Fogo de Chao on Wednesdays all summer. Ironically, you’ll choose between two Chilean wines from Casa Lapostolle, the Merlot (2005) or the Cabernet Sauvignon (2007). Fogo de Chao is a Brazilian steakhouse. But hey, it’s all South American! And it’s really the perfect excuse to…
Austin: Win dinner at TRIO for a whole year!
My love for TRIO is well-documented here on this here blog … now you can visit as often as I do, by entering to win dinner for a year!! To celebrate the launch of its new standalone restaurant website, TRIO at Four Seasons Hotel Austin is offering the chance to win dinner for two for…
Sometimes, even you can’t charm your way in
OK, so we normally quest for the free: free swag, free food, free booze. But sometimes, even the craftiest and sneakiest and in-the-knowiest have to pay to play at the events with the best swag, food, booze … or maybe the feel-good feelings you get donating to a good cause give you the kind of…