Breakfast: I woke up early a took my car to the VW dealer for routine maintenance. I picked up a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, Hash Brown Patty, and Coke to munch on while waiting in the waiting room.

Lunch: I made a Cajun-style turkey sandwich.

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What I Ate: March 3, 2010 (Taqueria Star)

Dinner: We went to Green Pastures (811 W Live Oak St, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 444-4747‎) for our first Austin Restaurant Week dinner of Spring 2010. We didn't get to see it very well because our dinner was after dark, but the land around the restaurant and the Victorian home that Green Pastures is housed in looked beautiful.

Green Pastures' Austin Restaurant Week menu looked so good and was such a good deal ($25 per person) that we couldn't resist ordering three meals instead of two. We tried everything on the menu except for one of the appetizer courses (we didn't order the South Texas Trio: A Little Quail, A Little Pork, and Some Chicken Bacon-wrapped jalapeno-stuffed Texas Quail; Pasilla-Nutmeg Pork En Croute; Ancho-Garlic Goat Cheese Chicken Sausage) because neither one of us wanted to share our lobster tail. The lobster tail - Breakfast in Vegas A Tempura Lobster Tail with Wasabi Mashed Potato, Coconut-Ginger Butter, Guajillo, Corriander [sic] and Crispy Basil - was rich (you'll see this an an ongoing theme with this dinner) and delicious. I loved the crunchy and well-seasoned tempura shell around the generous portion of lobster. Tina found the fried batter to be distracting and wished the lobster hadn't been fried so she could taste the lobster more.

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What I Ate: March 2, 2010 (Green Pastures)

Lunch: I made a sandwich of Cajun-style Turkey breast and sourdough bread.

Dinner: I had three tamales with some sauteed broccoli rabe.