I know, I know... I've been gone for like ever. It was only going to be a few days, then it was a few weeks, and then all of a sudden I realized I wasn't cooking or eating anything worthy of a return post. So finally, after a long overdue break from blogging Mangia Vita is back. I hope this is a good enough place to start.
Bryan and I have 11 days between our birthdays, and while we don't like to do anything too extravagant we do like to celebrate with our friends. Somehow we managed to get everyone available on a Friday night (wha what??) so we made a res at the always reliable, and always delicious Otto - Mario Batali's ginormous pizza joint on 8th Street.
We were a party of 7 and ordered a TON of food. Arugula salad, some sort of melted Parmesan cake salad (which was to DIE for), and a grated parm and romaine salad. Monty and Stephen ordered an orgy of delicious vegetable sides for us all to share - lentils, white bean salad, roasted cauliflower, eggplant, braised artichoke stem, and on and on. And for our main dishes we got a bunch of pizzas to share. The hit of all the pizzas was a spicy pie with a fried egg on top. I know, it sounds weird, but truly this was an epiphany. You have to try it to be a believer.
A bunch of desserts were ordered, olive oil ice cream was a hit amongst my friends but frankly, just a little to weird for me. I dove right into Monty's lemon ice though, and pretty much finished the plate. Mmm.
3 comments:
bellisima! but... did you tell a ghost story over candlelight and i missed it?
this is albert btw
Welcome back, Nicole! So good to hear from you!
You are making me so jealous about your smorgasbord dinner at Otto. Wow.
And I know what you mean about eggs on top of pizza. We used to bake them on top of our frozen pizzas when we lived in Italy (and still do). They call it the Bismarck pizza there.
So great to hear and read about what you are eating!
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