Here's a sampling of what has been going on:
Night 1 High Cotton BBQ. Traditional North Carolina sauce. Nice and tangy, not sweet with some kick. Green beans lacked seasoning which was ok in contrast to the spicy sauce on meat, but salt would have been good. Hush puppies were a little dense for my taste but fried up nice and crisp.
Morning One was Duck Donuts. Pretty Damn Good. The end. These are homemade cake donuts made fresh to order with a choice of glazes. Vanilla was my favorite although the maple was close second. Warm melt in your mouth goodness. Anyone who says these are overrated is an asshole and should not be believed. Yes, they are that good. If you don't think these donuts are great you probably also do not like Christmas or puppies and I do not want to know you.
Day Two the Hubs and I snuck out for burgers at Baldies. Everyone in our house was making sandwiches for lunch and we don't really do that. I should say Hubs doesn't really do that. Baldies has big sides of thin cut homemade fries and homemade beer battered onion rings. Both were good. Burger was your standard fried patty. No seasoning but it was tasty. Buns were fresh which counts for a lot. Shakes were made with the soft serve machine vs the hand dipped ice cream which kind of sucked but whatever.
Night Two was takeout from Cravings. I forgot to take a photo. I had fried oysters which tasted fresh. Also has bites of a crab cake and one crab leg. Both delicious. Crab cake had lots of lump meat and was light on breading. Good. I hate that. Nothing ruins a crab cake like too much breading Crab legs were nice and fresh tasting Hubs had lobster fettucini that he said was fantastic until he puked it all up at 2 a.m. Maybe that wasn't great as a takeout item?
Morning Three I was supposed to do a 5k and our friends would watch the kids. Mission was aborted when my daughter popped up at 6:30. There was no way she was going to let me leave the house without her so the runners went without me to avoid a nuclear meltdown I headed for Tullios bakery for a fresh homemade bagel. Yum.
Texas is not known for its bagels so it had been a while since I had a really good one. This was awesome. Chewy with crunchy outside fixed toasted with butter. Espresso was also really good. I took a shot to go with my bagel and more or less made my day right there.
Night Three cooked in.
Night Four we took all 8 kids and walked to the boardwalk. After some intense debate we decided to stop and feed kids pizza and grown ups would get takeout from Fishbones. Mostly bc it's too hard to get a table for 14 without a reservation. Kids ate at Wave Pizza Cafe. Cafe is a bit of an overstatement. Small interior with picnic tables on the patio. Pizza was serviceable. Not special. Good craft beer selection of some non standard choices (crafty rabbit was one). Hummus and pita chips was lame. The chips were prepackaged and served in a single serving bag. Too few for the hummus you got and not enough to share. Seems you could at least make the effort to take the chips out of the bag. As a premade appetizer it was totally a superfluous menu item to me. A waste of time if you aren't making the hummus or the chips.
The kids liked it and the pizza though so I guess that is what counts. Patio is right on the sound so hard to beat the location.
The Fishbones takeout was equally unimpressive. I had crab legs based on the good one from 2 nights before. Forgot to do picture before I ate and only have an "after". I ate the crab legs but they were not half as good as the ones from Cravings. Taste was too salty and slightly brackish. A couple guys got the paella which was reported As marginal. I don't recall hearing anyone in our group raving about His dish come to think of it.
And finally, Thursday meals were all repeats. more Duck Donuts, more Baldies, although this time I had a fish sandwich which was lovely, and more High Cotton BBQ. On BBQ this time I had chopped brisket that I really liked Coleslaw is a bit too mayonnaisey for me but still tasty and sweet.
If you are still reading this, kudos to you and thank you for not falling asleep. I've been posting in the car while Hubs drives and I think he is getting irritated at how long this is taking. Meanwhile the toddler is throwing her Chik fil a fries at me enraged at my audacity in asking if she wants them. Big brother pigged out on Lays and is now in a food coma in the way back seat. The babymeister is chilling so all in all we are cool.
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