Friday night Michael and I went to Fontanta (gyro joint on Francis Lewis) with Lenny, Jill and Brett. Casual and fun, good food: Philly cheese steak; chicken wrap, Greek salad with gyro meat; chicken souvlaki and gyro combo platter with rice and soup; fries, hummus and fried calamari. Yum all the way around!
Saturday night Michael and I went down to Jill and Lenny's apartment with Steve and Sue Boyle for drinks and dinner. Drinks were: freshly made margaritas; ketel one with cranberry; and beer. Manchego and Gruyere cheeses, crackers and thinly sliced pepperoni along with homemade pigs in a blanket went with the first rounds of drinks. Dinner was linguine carbonara; salad and bread. Earlier in the day I made chocolate chip cookies to bring; some with dark chocolate, some with white chocolate and some with both. Everything was really good!
Sunday afternoon Michael and I went to see Steve and Lori's girls (Michelle and Alyssa) in the play Into the Woods at the Levitown Hall. I am not in love with the director of the studio, but the kids love acting and the play was fun. Afterward we went to dinner at Il Vizio (http://ilvizioristorante.com/ristorante/) in East Meadow with Steve, Lori, Maria and Carla. We had wine, and more wine...then we ate like there was no tomorrow: Caesar salad; franchese style mozzarella balls and stuffed portobellos with Gorgonzola and I don't know what but they were from heaven! Next we had: Lobster ravioli in a pink sauce with shitake mushrooms and chopped shrimp (unbelievable); stuffed shrimp with crab meat (equally unbelievable); pork chop with cherry peppers; gnocchi with eggplant; and spaghetti with peas (me, I asked for it, it is not on the menu). Dessert was one tortoni (I had to have it). We laughed and had a great time! Thanks!
This week at home is not as exciting as the weekend, food wise, anyway :) Last night was mushroom and spinach ravioli (from Fairway) with homemade mushroom and onion cream sauce and a side of Brussels sprouts with pancetta (ok, maybe a little exciting). Tonight will be chicken cutlets and salad and tomorrow is turkey something (I haven't gotten there yet).
PS: Jury duty was finally over on Friday. We found the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal posession of a weapon in the Fourth degree. All very interesting and I will miss my new jury friends very much :(
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