I need to start up with the pictures soon. It's kind of weird taking pictures of all the random crap I've been eating while at home, though...once I get to school, it'll be much easier =)
Tonight I had the most fabulous dinner with my mom. For the first time in a long while, I let go of my fears and just made it a goal to enjoy myself and try everything. Cross your fingers!
We went to this little hole-in-the-wall Italian places, one of those shabby-on-the-outside, but quite romantic-on-the-inside restaurants that serve true-blue Italian cuisine. My mom was friends with one of the waiters there, and he was so lovely all night. He gave my mom a glass of red wine early on in the evening, and then later surprised me with a glass of sparkling wine. Free alcohol? Yes please!
My mom and I split three courses, all of which were truly scrumptious, I only wish I had pictures! The first was a salad with carpaccio in a lemon dressing, followed by mushroom ravioli drenched in a pistachio-cream sauce (soooo good, with bits of pistachio). Our final course was veal scallopine, which was the first time I'd ever had veal. Quite good.
And of course my mom somehow had dessert in front of me before I could even blink an eye. Omar (our waiter) brought out a beautiful presentation of chocolate-hazelnut gelato with two thin cookies stuck in it. It was frozen Nutella, only with little pieces of actual hazelnut. I wish I could go into more detail, but I'm so sleepy after that wonderful meal! I promise, I'm a much better writer than this (or so I like to think haha).
It was such a freeing thing, to be able to eat for the pure pleasure of it, rather than for the necessity of keeping myself alive. Why is it so hard for me?
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