Good Eats

As always one of the highlights of my trips is the good eats.  Whether we eat out or Michelle cooks it’s always tasty; like the pan-fried Dover Sole with spinach and portabella mushrooms she made, or the barbequed pork chops with orzo salad.  Her lamb curry stew with rice and Naam bread was delicious as well as the Fajitas with Beef loin flap meat steak with chipotle rub, and her chicken salad with orange flavored olive oil and orange zest and other yummy things was very delicious.  It’s all good!

 

The Local coffee house is a pretty regular place for the Cates.  I ordered a mocha and this is how it was served.

We went to Chris Madrid’s Mexican Restaurant and the food was really good.  The waiter came by with an extra appetizer and offered it to us.  We of course didn’t refuse it.  It was individual nachos on chips.

We went to the Farmers Market in downtown San Antonio one Saturday morning and there’s a Culinary Institute Cafe nearby, so of course we had to go in.  The pastry case was unbelievable.  It was really hard to decide what to buy.

We took a trip to Austin for the day and went to a botanical garden,  shopped at Whole Food’s flagship store and had lunch at Frank’s (Josh’s pick), along with a little sightseeing.

I think this is Josh’s lunch which was buffalo or something like that.

Yummy gravy fries.

I ordered a sausage dog with Kraut and sauce.  It was very tasty.

Fun Stuff with Emily and Zack – July 2011

I know, finally!!!  I’ve been home for 4 weeks and it seems we haven’t stopped since I got home.  I had a great time in San Antonio.  The weather was hot for sure, but it was a dry heat and the evenings in Michelle’s backyard were nice with a slight breeze.  So we spent many evenings outside.  

Our picnic at the neighborhood pool.

Emily always manages to find a way to make a costume.

This was suppose to be a great thing.  A large paint brush with paints for the driveway.  Well not as good as advertised.  Too hard to fill the brush and then it empties in one or two swipes.

Zack was having a good time with good ole sidewalk chalk.

Michelle found this water table on sale at Target.  So in the evenings Emily, Zack and Fern played in it.

I’m not sure who had the most fun with it, Emily, Zack or Fern.  Fern was always pulling toys out of it, drinking out of it, and jumping in it.  Josh said it was just a glorified dog dish.

Ah!  The wagon and the many wagon rides.  Again Fernie was in the mix, we couldn’t pull it without her jumping  on us.  Josh and Michelle had a cane pole with a string and a chew rope attached to it, so I would hold that out front and she would chase that instead of jumping on us.

Emily enjoying Zack’s swimmobile.