Three Days

Happy Spring!

We have had great meals for the past three days:  Friday night we went to 5 Burro with the Wisners and the Boyles.  Several pitchers of margaritas and a few beers along with queso fundido, guacamole, avocados stuffed with shrimp, chicken tacos, chicken chipotle and lobster burritos.  Afterwards, we walked to Agora Taverna (http://agorataverna.com/index.php) the new Greek place on Austin Street, for dessert:  Milopita-Granny Smith apples, raisins & spices, wrapped in phyllo dough served with cinnamon ice cream; Galactobureko-Milk farina custard wrapped in phyllo with cinnamon and powdered sugar; Yaourti-Authentic Greek yogurt with thyme honey, sour cherries and walnuts; Chocolatina-Warm chocolate souffle served with roasted figs and vanilla ice cream along with Greek and American coffees.

Saturday we were at Leslie's for her son Louis' 19th birthday.  Friends are always great and so is the food:  Warm artichoke cheese spread; crudite; cheese; olives; shrimp cocktail followed by cavatelli with gravy and Caesar salad and garlic bread.  Birthday cake and tons of goodies for dessert. Add wine and cocktails and stir till ready!

Sunday we had our annual Easter day with the Creutz family! Wonderful friends, happy kids, great food, beautiful sunshine!  We started with cheese, hummus and pita, grape leaves and tzatziki, marinated shrimp, wine, scotch, Manhattan's and bourbon (for the experienced crowd).  Dinner was amazing grilled, marinated, butterflied lamb (yes I nibbled a well done bit), wild and plain rice, asparagus, salad, more wine. Around the table we played a game similar to telephone, but you don't say what the person next to you whispers in your ear, you say the first thing that pops into your head (more like word association) and it goes around the table back to the person who started it. So, Louis starts by whispering "pussy" into B3's ear, and you can imagine what went on next. LOL. Boys will be boys...Dessert was apple strudel, Easter cupcakes, chocolate cake, cookies, coffee and cordials.  We gave the kids their Easter bags and one of Eileen's items was the big hit:  small Nerf guns.  It was all out war for a few hours after that.  A few games of Can-Jam on the lawn and our day was perfect!

Hope yours was too!