Birthdays and Garlic
Friday, January 25th, 2008 | Food
Celebrated two friends’ birthdays yesterday!
Happy Birthday L & Snooks!
I Love birthdays. They are an excuse to drink well, eat well and have cake. You even spend the time well… because you are with friends!
So we started out at Greater Trumps. I enjoyed a nice glass of their Cuvee. Greater Trumps is a McMenamins so its nice to know when you know you like something, you can get it at all of their fine establishments and lucky for me that is the Cuvee!
After R braved the cold and wind after a hard day at the office, he met up with us for a much needed respite with beer and some conversation before he headed home to do more work. While the rest of us, in honor of birthdays, headed to Gino’s for some fantastic Italian fare!
Boy and did that fare well and quite amazingly with a Caesar salad smothered in garlic!
I got to pick out the wine for us to share and of course how could one go wrong with a 2005 Barbera D’alba. Mmmmm soft slightly fruity with a light finish. Yum!
While, however, I was disappointed that my butternut squash soup with sage didn’t include the fine print of (with pancetta) luckily sitting across from me was snooks and at least he enjoyed every last bit of soup for me. I may be into poultry now after 14 years as a veggie , but, I’m certainly not entertaining introducing any merence of pork, or beef into my diet. While it was a horrid shock to have a first bite of soup contain bacon it gave me no joy to even think of ingesting more of that.
THANKS SNOOKS! 
I then proceeded to enjoy my ravioli stuffed with potato and chestnut cream, YUM. Was I too full for dessert? Certainly not! So I enjoyed every bit of Gino’s chocolate souffle cake, washed down by the perfectly brewed and creamy cup of sensuous coffee. The perfect end to an almost perfect meal!
To face the wind and cold was no picnic after such culinary luxury.. but we made it and I was welcomed home by a hard-at-work Ryan and the cringe on his face as my lips neared him for a kiss….. Oh yeah.. there was a ton of Garlic wasn’t there!
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