Now while I do actually love my husband, this pandemic has forced us to spend way too much time together. And there’s just way too much time that we spend in the same house, just the two of us, with no one else around to talk to or see.
So tonight I did something completely different — I went out for dinner with two friends! On a Wednesday! Thank goodness, because staying at home all the time is getting really old.
It was a beautiful night, much warmer than it should have been in mid-October. The restaurant has a cool outdoor covered patio — we sat outside and pretty much ordered everything off the menu. And I’m only slightly joking.
We ordered a tasting plate — we had no idea what to expect, but the “plate” was actually a wood board that had all these little appetizer-type things on it, one for each of us — stuffed figs (I could have eaten all of them!), prosciutto wrapped around long slices of mozzarella, smoked salmon on a crispy wafer with yummy goat cheese on top, and this crostini piled with hummus and diced tomatoes (which was so simple, but delicious! I could have easily made this at home, but it never would have tasted as good!). I think there was something else, but I’m in too much of a food coma to remember.
We split a goat cheese and beet salad, and two different entrees — their amazing beef tips with a creamy gorgonzola (do we see a trend??) and mascarpone sauce over pasta and short ribs, mashed potatoes and sautéed spinach. The other ladies weren’t a huge fan of the short ribs entree, and I agreed that they weren’t “melt-in-your-mouth” short ribs, but I really liked the red sauce they were in and I thought the spinach was delicious. Maybe my body just needed something other than cheese…
We finished with a slice of German chocolate cake. All that combined with the two bottles of red wine we ordered — between all the heavy cheese dishes and the wine, who knows how I am going to feel tomorrow…and tomorrow is in fact a work day, even if I can work in yoga pants, a sweatshirt and flip flops…
But no matter how I do feel tomorrow, it was so nice to go out with some girlfriends tonight and talk about different things! You know, like things I would never talk to my husband about! Not that he’s a bad listener (oh, hahaha!), it’s just nice to have a conversation with someone other than my full-time captive audience.
Can we do this again next week??
Notes from a Self Quarantine 