a week of vacation eats!
As promised, I’m back with a new post! Food blogging, I’ve missed you!
My husband and I went on a summer vacation last week, spending a couple days in San Antonio, followed by the rest of the week in Austin. Not sure if you’ve been to either, but they’re great vacation spots, whether you like to have a really active vacation with site-seeing, museums, amusement/water parks, etc., or if you’re like us and just like to truly relax on your vaca by sleeping in, eating, drinking and shopping. 
Seriously, I don’t think I’ve had a more relaxing vacation! Even during our honeymoon in December, we were sort of going by an itinerary, so we had to be in certain places at certain times. On this trip, we just went wherever, whenever, and did what looked good at the time. Wingin’ it is always risky on a vacation, but in this case, it all worked out.
And, I tried to remember to photograph our food, since we spent quite a bit of time last week at awesome local restaurants and trying regional cuisine. Here’s what we ate:
We ate here twice, the South Austin Trailer Park Eatery, featuring Torchy’s Tacos (and a couple other mobile food vendors, which I’ll get to later). They serve a variety of tacos (duh) and chips with guacamole, queso and salsa. They’ve got your traditional barbacoa taco (The Democrat), my husband’s favorite, lots of breakfast tacos, shrimp and fish tacos…basically, any kind of taco you’re looking for, you can probably find here and it definitely tastes good.
Here’s what I got — a breakfast taco on a flour tortilla (right) with potatoes, beans and cheese, and a fried avocado taco on a corn tortilla, described on the menu as “hand battered fresh avocadoes fried and served With vegetarian refried beans, lettuce, pico de gallo and Cheese served on a corn tortilla with our poblano ranch sauce.” I describe it as yummy.
Every time we go to Austin, we go to Flip Happy Crepes, another mobile food vendor that sells (another duh) crepes! And these are gourmet-quality crepes, let me tell you! They even defeated Bobby Flay on Throwdown!, so you know they know what they’re doing. If you don’t get there early, you probably have to stand in a super long line and wait for forever for your food (give ‘em a break, it’s two women making crepes in a trailer, for goodness sakes!), but it is so worth it! I usually get the roasted chicken crepe w/ caramelized onions and goat cheese. Delicious.
And did I mention they have DESSERT CREPES? That’s major. This one’s my favorite — it’s nutella and banana with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. Yum.
Now, going back to the South Austin Trailer Park Eatery, home of Torchy’s Tacos, and “other mobile food vendors,” as I mentioned above…
CAKE BALLS! Have you ever heard of such a genius thing? These are from Holy Cacao, located in the trailer park eatery, and they are the greatest dessert in the history of food. They have a ton of flavors, from red velvet to peanut butter to chocolate to wedding cake…ugh, drooling while I think about it! They even have a “Diablo Ball,” chocolate cake mixed with ancho/cayenne cream cheese frosting, dipped in dark chocolate and then topped with cayenne and cocoa toasted walnuts. SO GOOD!
That’s all I photographed, but trust me when I say we ate more — a ton more!
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