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Archive for Adult Beverages
Welcome to India: Lamb Masala and German Beer
For the first time, I foud out it’s possible for me to get bored in an airport.
I know you might find that odd. Your experience is probably more typical; all airports are boring. But I love travel and flying, and I avidly watch all sorts of mechanisms that fly. It was a shock to me, [...] Read more »
Restaurant Review: Gumbo’s Louisiana Style Café
My spouse’s best friend celebrates her birthday only a few days before my spouse celebrates hers. Actually, they celebrate these anniversaries whenever they feel like it, and sometimes they take a Mulligan if the first try wasn’t celebration enough.
Whatever the excuse, we trekked over to Gumbo’s Louisiana Style Café on Monday to get the first [...] Read more »
Brew Blues: Guinness in Brew-haha With Grain Growers
Brewed adult beverages pair nicely with zesty-hot foods. What better than an ale, porter or beer to soothe the tongue and palate before digging in again?
One of my favorites is Guinness porter. It’s also one of the oldest commercial brews available; next year they celebrate their 250th year at the St. James Gate Brewery in [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies X: Beer Makes You Attractive, and Other Soggy Tales
It’s now a demonstrated, provable fact: Beer makes you more attractive! And what more reputable outlet than the Daily Mail of London to break this scientific news?
Okay, we all knew (as in all of us beerdrinkers knew) that beer you attractive. But scientific proof had been elusive, until now. The exciting part is, it only [...] Read more »
The Gourmet Chile Pepper and Salsa Festival: Heat, Eats and Margarit-Ahs
After the trek and detours mentioned in my previous post, we finally arrived at the Festival. I knew this wouldn’t be a big event (like maybe ZestFest ‘08), so I wasn’t worred about getting there early and leaving late; we reversed that, actually. With the beauteous & clever Paula Jo out on point (so I [...] Read more »
Traveling to The Gourmet Chili Pepper and Salsa Festival in Fredericksburg, Texas
I attended the Gourmet Chili Pepper and Salsa Festival on Saturday, at Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg, Texas. This is a small, mostly-vendor gathering, and it was hot! I mean the weather; it was 106 degrees F at two in the afternoon, with intense sun and no clouds.
Oh, the food, you ask? Lots of samples; more [...] Read more »
Zing-Fish: The Fastest Fish Dish in the West (And Good For You)
It’s Friday evening, and you’ve had a beat-down of a week. Cooking doesn’t appeal to you, but going out is even tougher to contemplate.
If only there were a quick way to fix something tasty, with a zing, that won’t blow the diet. (You’ve been good all week about the calories, right?) That doesn’t take all [...] Read more »
Happy “Birthday” Chile Underground! A Visit to Matt’s Famous El Rancho
Everybody’s having birthdays these days. It’s so fashionable that I hear some folks celebrate one every year! Imagine that.
Matt’s Famous El Rancho just celebrated 56 years of serving great Mexican food here in Austin, for instance. I had lunch there today to help them celebrate. Well, okay; not to help them celebrate, exactly. I was [...] Read more »
