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Last night my mom made a nice roast with potatoes and carrots for my birthday, and my brother contributed a marionberry pie (with requisite comments to the effect that there was no crack cocaine therein-- whereupon we had to explain the 'Marion Barry' joke to my mother). Mom also had an interesting wine, Fess Parker's Lot 41 Frontier Red. It's unbelievably oaky, but with a rich, smoky-fruity finish. Shockingly drinkable, considering how tannic it was.
Tonight the housemate took me to The Med, one of my favorite places (one ofaukestrel's, too.). They serve, appropriately enough, mediterranean fare, including tapas, wood-oven baked pizza and calzones, paellas, and many other good things. The housemate had the paella-- man, that was enough for 3 people at least. There's literally half a chicken in it, as well as a whole sausage and lots of shrimp and mussels and other stuff. She brought two thirds of it home as leftovers.
I had a glass of the house red wine with an assortment of tapas: calamari fritti with spanish sauce, mussels in white wine and rosemary, pinchon maruno (lamb skewers), greek salad with white anchovies, roast garlic with balsamic onion jam and gorgonzola, and marinated shrimp with garlic aioli. For dessert we shared a thing that was like a fabulous chocolate mousse piped between two wafer-thin praline cookies and topped with cinnamon-vanilla gelato.
a_mews is the only person who will read this. :)Last night my mom made a nice roast with potatoes and carrots for my birthday, and my brother contributed a marionberry pie (with requisite comments to the effect that there was no crack cocaine therein-- whereupon we had to explain the 'Marion Barry' joke to my mother). Mom also had an interesting wine, Fess Parker's Lot 41 Frontier Red. It's unbelievably oaky, but with a rich, smoky-fruity finish. Shockingly drinkable, considering how tannic it was.
Tonight the housemate took me to The Med, one of my favorite places (one of
aukestrel's, too.). They serve, appropriately enough, mediterranean fare, including tapas, wood-oven baked pizza and calzones, paellas, and many other good things. The housemate had the paella-- man, that was enough for 3 people at least. There's literally half a chicken in it, as well as a whole sausage and lots of shrimp and mussels and other stuff. She brought two thirds of it home as leftovers.I had a glass of the house red wine with an assortment of tapas: calamari fritti with spanish sauce, mussels in white wine and rosemary, pinchon maruno (lamb skewers), greek salad with white anchovies, roast garlic with balsamic onion jam and gorgonzola, and marinated shrimp with garlic aioli. For dessert we shared a thing that was like a fabulous chocolate mousse piped between two wafer-thin praline cookies and topped with cinnamon-vanilla gelato.
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