As we roll into the heart of the spring semester, the Baylor Student Government has rolled out version 2.0 of a program we're very excited about: Passport Waco.
If you're a Baylor student, you'll want to get in on this. If you know a Baylor student, pass this along to them.
I will always love Spring Break.
Never mind that I'm out of school and have been for more than a decade. The way I look at it, if there's a holiday celebrated by everyone who's school age AND everyone who has school age kids, then that's a holiday for everyone. Of course, there's also the close connection with March Madness on the calendar AND we almost invariably have beautiful weather this time of year.
Let me begin by stating that I know the difference between a legitimate scientific experiment and what I was attempting at lunchtime today.
However, I did have a hypothesis and controlled and variable factors. I brought three brands of "street" tacos to the table and six varieties in all. What separated our Taco Truck Challenge, which was held at Dichotomy at Croft Art Gallery, from a more sophisticate survey is I didn't control it as well as I could have nor did I have a massive sampling size.
I don't know about anybody else out there, but I'm loving Taco Week. More than any other food, I think I could subsist solely on tacos.
So today I went past Zacatecas for tacos. Because the one thing that has more of my attention these days than tacos is college basketball, I briefly had the urge to use my dry-erase board to diagram a basketball play using tacos as Os. I even went so far as to buy five tacos. Alas, as I drove away from Zacatecas I realized I didn't have enough tacos to properly diagram a basketball play because there wouldn't be any Xs for the defense.
It's essential for me to include breakfast tacos in Taco Week, isn't it?
I'm more of a coffee and bagel person, so I don't necessarily have a go-to breakfast taco in town. If I did, it might be the variety offered at El Crucero because of its association with Common Grounds.
Whenever I dine at Freebirds or Chipotle, which is often and usually means taking it to go, I pretty much know what I'm going to order. The only thing that really changes is the case.
At Chipotle, I know I'm going to have brown rice, peppers and onions, guacamole, maybe a little dab of sour cream and either steak or chicken. The salsas could vary or I might go without. At Freebirds, Spanish rice, queso and jalapeños are the staples, I alternate chicken, steak and ground beef, and I usually have the burrito barista (that's a term I just invented to describe the burrito-makers at either location; if it's totally ridiculous, I'm sure someone will let me know) add a little barbecue sauce.
I was spending the morning chilling at Dichotomy with my friends Carole Kiphen and Brett Jameson when it occurred to me that this is a pretty good town if you dig coffee shops.
We have quantity and quality and the people that run them like to host events. Dichotomy, for example, is hosting its monthly Thursday Night Throwdown (TNT) when will attempt to out-do one another with their latte art. This has become a popular event among baristas and spectators.
As we roll into what promises to be a wonderful weekend, I have a thought on the goings on in Waco and how you might be able to augment your weekend scene.
Consider this an extension of our "How 'bout" series.
It occurs to me that as much as I love to watch sports at a sports bar or at the pub, when it comes to the most high-profile game of the year, it's like Christmas morning — it feels like it should be celebrated in someone's home.
In the last 10 years, it's also become somewhat of a tradition to make chili or something in that realm for Super Bowl eats. My friend Jeremy and I began making homemade gut paks a while back, but that evolved into his Jeremy's World Famous Chili from Wisconsin when he moved to Milwaukee for a couple of years.
If you've ever had sushi at a restaurant and thought to yourself "I bet I could do this at home," then you are more self-confident than me. And I have more good news for you, Gourmet Gallery is offering you the chance to learn how to make your own sushi.
This is a limited offer, so if this blog hits you where you're at, you're going to want to click on Gourmet Gallery to get their phone number and call to reserved one of the few remaining spots in the January 26 sushi class.
