Dinner: Tina and I drove up to Asia Cafe (8650 Spicewood Springs Road #114A, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 331-5788) where we ordered enough food to have leftovers for several meals.

Lunch: Braden and Kelly came up to Austin from San Antonio, so we met up for a dim sum lunch at Fortune Seafood Chinese Restaurant (10901 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 490-1426‎). This is my second dim sum on a Saturday at Fortune, and I have to say they have been better both times than Shanghai's dim sum.

Dinner: They suggested we try one of Austin's famous trailers for dinner, so I took them to The Odd Duck Farm to Trailer (1219 South Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 695-6922‎). I had the tomato and melon salad with goat ricotta ($4) and a slider with spiced pork belly, sauerkraut, jalapeno and arugula ($6). Both were perfect. The acidic tomatoes matched really well with the sweet and crisp watermelon cubes with the mild goat ricotta cheese blending it with a pleasant earthy flavor. The slider was as good as I think you can make a pork belly slider - juicy, flavorful, and wonderfully fatty pork belly playing off of the crunchy sour and pepperiness of the cabbage and rocket - I'm getting hungry for another one just writing this. Too bad they're closed on Sundays and Mondays!

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Lunch: I ate the last four jiu cai he with some sriracha sauce.

Dinner: I had some more ratatouille and chicken and rice oven bake along with a toasted french toast bagel with cream cheese.

Lunch: I had three more jiu cai he for lunch.

Dinner: Steak & Eggs dinner. I cooked a USDA Prime Rib Eye steak (which I had cut from a whole prime rib roast when I was sectioning it into reasonable sizes) sous vide (at 55°C) and then seared it. I served it with two eggs cooked in a water bath set to 63°C and then pan fried quickly. I also sauteed some baby spinach and arugula and fresh okra.

Lunch: Tina's mom brought over some chives boxes (jui cai he). I heated 3 of them in the toaster over for lunch.

Dinner: I ended my day with a plate of peaches and plums.

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Lunch: I had some leftover smoked ribs with bread and broccoli.

Dinner: I decided to have a variety of breakfast foods for dinner. Cinnamon Crunch bagel with cream cheese, an egg over easy, breakfast sausages, and watermelon.

Lunch: I ate a couple chicken drumsticks and drank a bowl of chicken soup that Tina made.

Dinner: I ate two bowls of the leftover okra stew with white rice (finishing it off).

Lunch: Tina and I grabbed lunch at Panera Bread while running errands. I had a Cobb salad.

Dinner: I smoked (with mesquite wood) three whole racks of baby back ribs.

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So, the American Fall Television Season is about to begin, so I figured out which new shows to start watching (I figure most of the ones I actually like will be canceled, so I have to pick several) and wrote down which days they will be premiering so I could set up my Tivo properly.

Here are the new shows that I've decided on:
Interested
Nikita (CW) Sept 9 Th 8pm
Boardwalk Empire (HBO) Sept 19 Su 8pm
Hawaii Five-O (CBS) Sept 20 Mo 10pm
Undercovers (NBC) Sept 22 We 8pm
Outsourced (NBC) Sept 23 Th 9:30pm

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Dinner: We finally made it to Nubian Queen Lola's (1815 Rosewood Avenue, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 474-5652‎). We had gone twice before, but both times she was closed. The food wasn't perfect (I would say it was good, not great) but the experience was worth it and I'll definitely go back. We started with a same cup of jambalaya. (We wanted to try the gumbo, but she didn't have any today. She suggested the jambalaya but we could eat that plus the two entrees we wanted, so she got us a cup of it.) The jambalaya was very flavorful and I could have made a meal of it. It was a bit salty, but that wasn't a problem if eaten the the sweet cornbread.

Tina had the crawfish éttoufée which I found to be a little too spicy and too salty for me.

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