20th August, 2010 - Posted by katherine - 3 Comments
Last week I went to Banzai on North Lamar (3914 North Lamar Boulevard), a small Japanese cafe. This is another restaurant that doesn’t have a website, so without being able to look at the menu online, I can’t say for sure what I ate. Whatever it was, it was delicious and everyone in our group liked their food! I love sushi, and was impressed by the number of choices of everything Banzai had, but I was especially impressed with all of the vegetarian choices they had. I had one roll that had sweetened egg and veggies in it, and another that had cream cheese, avocado, cucumber, and carrots in it. They were both really good and pretty authentic tasting. Plus the restaurant was very clean, and although the service was a little slow, I would recommend checking it out. Sorry the pictures aren’t that great, when you’re with a group of people it’s pretty awkward to pull out your camera to take a picture of your food, so I like to pretend I’m checking my cell phone and quickly snap a blurry, unappetizing pic. But the food really was good!
17th March, 2010 - Posted by katherine - 2 Comments
This is the first of 3 posts about farmer’s markets in Austin. (Check back tomorrow for our review of the Downtown Farmer’s Market!) Some general information about the benefits of buying from farmer’s markets can be found here, but juts a few of the environmental benefits are:
They help reduce the miles the food travels, thus reducing pollution.
They encourage using less packaging.
They encourage environmentally friendly production practices, such as organic and pesticide free.
Carsi and I went to the Farmer’s Market at the Triangle last December. The Triangle Farmer’s Market takes place each Wednesday. Neither of us had been before, and we wanted to check it out and eventually get to all 3 farmer’s markets in Austin and compare them. I ended up buying some green bell peppers and 2 tacos. There were probably about 10-15 stands, and there wasn’t much to choose from – it was a little disappointing. But the lack of stands was probably in large part due to the time of year and the low temperatures. I’d like to check it out again now that it’s warmer and see if it’s any bigger.
If it’s on the way home from work and you need some veggies and aren’t picky about needing something specific for dinner that night, it’s a nice way to support local farmers!
the row of stands
peppers!
the row of stands
peppers!