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mother's day

16 May 2002

We had a nice afternoon on Sunday at my parents’ place for mother’s day.

Amanda and I went to the store and bought stuff to make a big meal. We made a huge giant pot of chicken cacciatore.

The appetizer we made is one of our new favorites – “insalata caprese” which translates roughly to “salad of capri”. It’s just really really fresh mozzarella sliced in half, tomatoes (we used cherry tomatoes), fresh basil, and olive oil. epicurious.com says not to use any balsamic vinegar because it would “destroy” the taste of the mozzarella, but we added a splash with the olive oil. What do they know anyway?

Comments

snooty mcmuffinpants — May 17, 2002 at 10:16 · reply

they know everything!!!! you’re ruinging the salad!!!! olive oil is god!!!!!!

actually, i eat it both ways. i want to get some of that real fancy super-aged balsamic. the stuff that’s thick like syrup and only comes in those little round bottles.

eat more salad!!!!!!!!

-snooty

Chris Wage — May 17, 2002 at 10:33 · reply

Yeah I saw some of that stuff at the store.. It was expensive!

Amanda and I are going to start an Italian restaurant. The first ever Italian restaurant started by a norwegian/german and a slovak.

We’re gonna serve complimentary insalata caprese, good bread and olive oil, and calamata olives as appetizers. And we’ll have salads that aren’t wussy iceberg salads. We won’t play any Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett. It will be REVOLUTIONARY!! Instead, we will play the chinese elevator music they play at chinese buffets.

Amanda — May 17, 2002 at 23:42 · reply

Kalamata olives are Greek, fuckface.

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