Friday night we went to a Brazilian Tex-Mex restaurant for dinner. I wasn't sure what to expect because the only Brazilian food I've had is the steakhouses, but it was really good. Andrew got a shrimp dish described as: Bobo de Camarao (Best of Austin Chronicle Winner) Shrimp and yucca tossed with onions and bell peppers in a tomato cream sauce, served with steamed rice. He loved it!
I got Galinhada (Brazilian paella) Jasmine rice and chicken seasoned with saffron, onion, cilantro, tomatoes and mushrooms. It was also really really good.
The next morning we got up and went to the Austin Farmer's Market where we picked up some Texas Pepper Jam- it is hot and sweet and I can't wait to use it cooking. Then we headed out to get a grill, which was Andrew's parents' wedding present to us. The box just barely fit in the car, but we got it in. Andrew spent the next hour or so putting it together- here's the final product!
We went out to get some pork to grill on it and happened upon Central Market's Hatch Chili Festival. So for dinner we had a Carribean pork that Andrew did a great job of grilling with a mango and hatch chili salsa. It was pretty good!That night I set the breadmaker to have fresh bread ready and waiting for us Sunday am. The first time I made bread (last weekend). It didn't rise at all really so it tasted good, but it was awfully dense. This time I got some fresh flour and gave it another shot. It rose too much! We ended up with a really good loaf, but it was up against the top of the breadmaker and created quite a "muffin top."
Sunday we rode our bikes down the the Austin Hot Sauce festival and set our mouths on fire trying all kinds of red and green salsas, and "specialty" sauces. We also got a little bit of a sunburn. We don't know yet if the ones we voted for won, but there were some good ones (and some not so good).
Sunday evening we drove over to the Congress Avenue bridge to watch the largest urban colony of bats leave for a night of hunting. We got there as the sun was setting, so we got some nice shots of the Austin downtown. The bats, being nocturnal, don't leave until the sun goes down, which makes them really hard to get pictures of. It was kinda creepy- there are 1.5M of them, and they fly really fast and are swarming but never seem to run into each other. Apparently they swarm all around until they get a big group together and then go off in clouds for hunting. It was strange to be on top of the bridge because they don't ever go as high as you are and they area almost silent in flight- they are just everywhere when you look down.
Here are some pre-bat pictures:
The lake:
People down below,
it got a lot more crowded than this:
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