pasta on a hot night

We are in the 4^th heat wave of the summer.  Today was again around 94; tomorrow is expected to be the same.  In winter, the colder, the better.  So I find this weather particularly brutal.

Tonight, I have plans to meet two friends…Ellen and Brenda…for dinner.  These plans were made weeks ago.  Had I known what the weather would be, I doubt I’d have chosen Al Forno, a pizza and pasta place with nice outdoor seating.

We meet at 8:30, as Brenda has to work late.  We chose to eat inside and the restaurant is loud.  I wonder if that’s an age thing, as lately it seems many restaurants are too loud for decent conversation.  We decide to stay after Ellen checks out the restaurant next door and concludes that that one is even louder.

The food is excellent.  We decide on splitting the restaurant’s specialty salad, and then get one of the lighter sounding “family style” pastas of Capellini Siciliana:  angel hair pasta with shrimp, sautéed in white wine, olive oil and garlic. It’s delicious and plentiful.  I end up taking some home for Alexander. 

The entire meal, with one drink, three diet cokes, one coffee and two cappuccinos totals $75 including tip.  Brenda takes out her calculator to compute the per person charge before realizing we can divide 75 by 3 without one. 

I come home about 11, and am now able to provide Alexander with his second dinner of the night.