Tuesday 2/24 Marin Gras
Adrian and I kicked off our personal Mardi Gras in Florence with a visit to our old, Borgasm, neighborhood. Kebab lady and even kebab man. We stopped by the enoteca to see Cristian and to make good on my promise to Tom to have a good class of wine for him. Chianti of course. I spent the rest of a red, red wine afternoon reading over some recipes. We went to the bar to meet up with Sergio. Drank a very tall white Russian. By now we were hungry again, so we went to the American joint to get dinner. Buffalo wings and bleu cheese, “Louisiana burgers” with French fries and onion rings. I had to get a Tequila Sunrise because of the infamous NOLA early-morning party. More barhopping. Jack and sprite. One place was having a “movie night” costume party, and Trine, the owner, was dressed up as Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, nosebleed, emergency syringe and all. More barhopping. Vodka tonics, vodka redbulls, shots. Johnson showed up in a carnival mask and robe and then eventually took them off to reveal his homemade Dragonball Z costume. Yeah, he’s a fashion major. The night got a little hazy then. But it was a good one.
Ash Wednesday 2/25
Lenten sacrifice? Here we go again.
I spent the afternoon playing Texas Hold-Em with Emo. We didn’t have any coins, so we played with cotton buds. Apparently hygiene was the grand prize of the evening. The last round, we both went all in but my Full House couldn’t compare with his Four-of-a-Kind 7s. Sergio invited Adrian, Domenico, and me, his brothers, to have dinner with his new little sisters, Michaela, Nicole, Tiffany. “Dinner with the family.” Red wine, mixed crostini, duck papardelle, maybe the best beef peposo (a peppercorn stew) I’ve had, tiramisu, coffee.
Thursday 2/26 Beignet Day
Thursday was all about beignets in Dessert Class. Baked beignets, fried beignets, beignets filled with whipped cream, cocoa cream, pastry cream, etc. Small beignets. Beignet decorations. Saint-Honore. Etc.
LOST is getting so good, “like a college student who slacked a little bit in sophomore and junior year and is now trying to finish a six-year college degree with honors.”
That night was Tiffany’s birthday, so she gathered a bunch of her friends at our now-favorite trattoria. Wines both red and white, bruschettta, spaghetti alla carbonara, and filetto con pepe verde that I’ve been craving for a while. Dessert and the actual birthday party was at the bar; Sergio arranged for a sacher torte birthday cake.
Adrian and I kicked off our personal Mardi Gras in Florence with a visit to our old, Borgasm, neighborhood. Kebab lady and even kebab man. We stopped by the enoteca to see Cristian and to make good on my promise to Tom to have a good class of wine for him. Chianti of course. I spent the rest of a red, red wine afternoon reading over some recipes. We went to the bar to meet up with Sergio. Drank a very tall white Russian. By now we were hungry again, so we went to the American joint to get dinner. Buffalo wings and bleu cheese, “Louisiana burgers” with French fries and onion rings. I had to get a Tequila Sunrise because of the infamous NOLA early-morning party. More barhopping. Jack and sprite. One place was having a “movie night” costume party, and Trine, the owner, was dressed up as Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, nosebleed, emergency syringe and all. More barhopping. Vodka tonics, vodka redbulls, shots. Johnson showed up in a carnival mask and robe and then eventually took them off to reveal his homemade Dragonball Z costume. Yeah, he’s a fashion major. The night got a little hazy then. But it was a good one.
Ash Wednesday 2/25
Lenten sacrifice? Here we go again.
I spent the afternoon playing Texas Hold-Em with Emo. We didn’t have any coins, so we played with cotton buds. Apparently hygiene was the grand prize of the evening. The last round, we both went all in but my Full House couldn’t compare with his Four-of-a-Kind 7s. Sergio invited Adrian, Domenico, and me, his brothers, to have dinner with his new little sisters, Michaela, Nicole, Tiffany. “Dinner with the family.” Red wine, mixed crostini, duck papardelle, maybe the best beef peposo (a peppercorn stew) I’ve had, tiramisu, coffee.
Thursday 2/26 Beignet Day
Thursday was all about beignets in Dessert Class. Baked beignets, fried beignets, beignets filled with whipped cream, cocoa cream, pastry cream, etc. Small beignets. Beignet decorations. Saint-Honore. Etc.
LOST is getting so good, “like a college student who slacked a little bit in sophomore and junior year and is now trying to finish a six-year college degree with honors.”
That night was Tiffany’s birthday, so she gathered a bunch of her friends at our now-favorite trattoria. Wines both red and white, bruschettta, spaghetti alla carbonara, and filetto con pepe verde that I’ve been craving for a while. Dessert and the actual birthday party was at the bar; Sergio arranged for a sacher torte birthday cake.
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