You know you're vip (very important pals) when...
...it's the beginning of the work week and an email announces that so-and-so's birthday is in exactly 2 days and well, can you come over? Oh, and it's going to be a surprise.
Spur-of-the-moment gatherings are one of the things I miss most since moving away from the islands, and I'm sure we've all experienced the sudden invite where you're caught between a yes or no. Yes, as in I know I have to wake up early for work the next day but as long as I stick to one drink only...sure. Or No, it doesn't matter what day tomorrow is because a birthday is a party and a party means food and food means....so when should I show up?
Another page in the cheese monkey chronicles
On Wednesday night we ate so much cheese and drank so much wine that I was sorry I had not worn stretchy pants - I must've put on 5 pounds just by looking at everything. Mortadella, salame, mostarda; speck (cured trentino ham), tuna-stuffed olives, pickled onions; fat, juicy grapes, clementine oranges and fresh pineapple; it was one thing after another as bread continued to be tossed [incoming!!] on the table. The host kept pulling jars of stuff out of his pantry and all I'm thinking is that with friends like these, how can you go wrong? We set the gold standard for hump day, I think.
Some sort of runny goat cheese that smelled so divine when I inhaled. Scoop to serve.
The MotH with his Eddie tshirt. Altogether there were 8 types of cheese. Whoa smelly!
You know that you're really good friends when layer after layer of cured meats are handed to you with nothing more than a simple "help yourself".
Red all evening long until it was time for cake. Jaddico was especially wonderful to me. www.tenuterubino.com/en/articles/red-wines/jaddico-red-wine-doc-brindisi.html
If the cake was any bigger than this I would have cried. Any BFF stories to share?
scribbled from the chestnut forest by Rowena... at 11:12 AM
11 Comments:
Oh my what a feast for the eyes and tastebuds-yup, that's at least five pounds on the next day!
Oh dear, may I know your friends?
yum-o!
Were you actually able to sleep that night??! Those cheeses look sensational... I'm not sure I could've made room for that heavenly cake. It all looks scrumptuous.
Such a super get-together, with a super yummy feast mmmmmm!
Ivor - I'm just relieved that it was only 5 pounds!
Kenny - only if you ship over some banh mi!
Kat - and mega, MEGA cholesterol-o :-o
Fern - surprisingly, yes. The problem is that I didn't want to wake up the next morning. I felt like a cement block in bed.
Anne - indeed...I ♥ surprise birthday parties!
I love the Eddie Would Go shirt!
OMG!! I wish they are my friends too...
I remember a similar dinner, in Milan, where there were perhaps less cheeses (but brought fresh from the Alpine mountains that afternoon), and it was wonderful.
Friends of the hosts (my dear friends) that I hadn't ever met before were almost immediately old acquaintances, or so it seemed, from the warmth of the situation and the transference...
Candylei - I wish they had Eddie's shirts for doggies!
Jacques - thank you so much for sharing that. I thought perhaps it might be asking too much for others to share their memories, but reading about yours brought a huge (and envious) smile on my face. Fresh cheese from the mountains...priceless.
Living in New York City I don't have as many last minute gatherings as I would like either. Even though nobody is that far away from each other, the public transportation thing makes it tough to be like, "hey you grab this, you grab this, and lets meet in an hour." But it seems like even though you don't have as many last minute ones as you'd like, you still did ok. =) What a spread!
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