Weekend in Austin

I just love going to Austin. Did I mention that before? :) Not only because I get to spend time with friends we don't see often enough, but because Austin is so incredibly veggie-friendly! Whenever we go out to eat in the DFW area, people always ask me where I can eat. When people ask me that in Austin, I say I can eat anywhere! It's Austin, there's going to be *something* vegetarian on the menu.

I had said in my previous post that I hoped we could eat at Trudy's and Dog Almighty this weekend, and we had the chance to eat at both!

My absolute favorite thing to order at Trudy's is the Veggie Flaquita dinner. Imagine an enchilada-sized flauta stuffed with spinach, pinto and black beans, corn, pico de gallo and cheese. The flaquitas are fried and topped with your choice of sauce. Usually I get the suiza sauce, which is a verde sauce mixed with a little sour cream. Saturday night I was a bit daring and had the caliente sauce, which was a spicy verde sauce. (Yes, I do love verde sauces...) The veggie flaquitas come with rice and your choice of bean--they have six different kinds of bean. I had the refried black beans, which are a little spicy. Yum!

Today on our way out of town we stopped in for lunch at Dog Almighty. What I love about this little place is that you can order anything on their menu vegetarian. Anything. The first time Ben took me there years ago I ordered the chili dog, just because I'd never had a chili dog. And you know what I learned? Chili dogs are ridiculously messy! :) Today I had the Broken Spoke Dog, which comes topped with BBQ sauce and sauteed onions, but I had them add sliced jalapenos too. So good! Ben always orderes the Jalapeno Corndog (with a regular ol' beef hot dog). He loves it because the batter is spicy with bits of jalapeno peppers in it. Every time we go, I'm tempted to try a veggie one. Maybe next time!