Kaytee Says… Eat!

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So, after after Thursday and Friday’s delicious eats, it’s hard to imagine that Saturday and Sunday could get better.

Oh, but it did.

I started the day with some cereal and grapefruit from the continental breakfast, which is pretty ho-hum, but things got pretty great around lunch time.

We drove up to Round Rock, a town just a little north of Austin that I had driven through many times before… why?

Salt Lick BBQ!

This place had been on Man vs. Food and Best Thing I Ever Ate before so we had to have it. The restaurant was busy, but not packed: my favorite atmosphere. We decided to order our food family style and share.

I had one of my favorite things.

We started with delicious fresh white bread. I don’t usually love white bread, but yes, I loved this. That had to be a good sign of things to come.

The amount of food that hit our table was ridiculous. I ate a little bit of everything.

That’s a lie. I ate a whole lot of ribs. Soup preferred the sausage, but together we wiped out that whole table. Yeah. The sauce was tangy, the meat was tender… ugh… totally worth the splurge after doing vegetarian 2 a days.

And maybe (definitely) a piece of the most delicious pecan pie a la mode that was devoured before I could even turn the camera on. I was pretty thankful he was there to share it with me, or I probably would have taken care of it on my own.

We walked off some calories at the Round Rock Premium Outlets. Sadly, I didn’t buy anything, but the boy had a few great finds.

After an afternoon nap, we drove out to one of the Alamo Draft Houses. If you’re not familiar, it’s a theatre with full service food and drinks. We have a few in DFW, but nothing that compares to the awesome menu at the Draft House. (If distractions are a concern, trust me that the food service hardly interrupts.) We shared some red pepper hummus, pita and veggies and a wonderful mushroom pizza, which I didn’t photograph, understandably. We watched Where The Wild Things Are and I promptly passed out when we got back to the hotel.

It was time to go home the next morning, sadly. I was unenthused, but the promise of a delicious breakfast helped to sway me.

We stopped in Round Rock again, this time at the famous Round Rock donut. This place was packed out. Totally worth the wait.

We both had one of these.

Just kidding.

Not that our box really looked much better though.

We shared a couple of glazed donuts, a sausage roll with jalapeno and cheese, and an applesauce donut. Holy cow. he donuts were soft, fresh, and oh my goodness, so delicious. The glazed were great, but I prefer a more cakey donut and the applesauce was just my speed. I had a bite of the sausage roll, and it was just the right amount of spicy.

I’m not kidding when I say I fell in love with them. It may be worth the trip to Austin just to have these.

I’d do anything to have one now.

The drive home was less miserable knowing that when we got to Fort Worth, we could go to my favorite taco shop, Fuzzy’s. No picture needed. You know I had to grilled shrimp tacos. As usual. My favorite.

When we got back to my house, I had a visitor. We played for a few hours and then it was time to take my sweetheart back to the airport. I did my best not to sob hysterically on the way home.

The next morning it was back to normal life. : (

I can’t wait for our next visit.