Well fed and slightly boggled

[mdlbear]

Went out with the flower_cat for a delightful dinner at California Cafe in Los Gatos Old Town. Cups of gazpacho, a plate of baked brie (with apricot jam and a bulb of roasted garlic), and the Fruits de Mer platter for two (lobster tail, oysters, shrimp cocktail [with dry ice smoking under the bowl], and snow crab legs. Finished up with a cheese platter and café mocha for desert. (Actually, the Cat had the "Marvelous Mocha", which was alcoholic and yummy. But since I'd already had a Guinness with dinner...

I'd brought home the rest of the CDs mere minutes before we left for dinner, so we came home to a pile of boxes with a street price retail value of $15K. Mind-boggling.

(The Y.D. is still out for burger-and-a-movie, by the way, which is why the Cat and I were able to go out for dinner at a comparatively elegant restaurant that the kid wouldn't have been happy at.)

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

mmmmm.... brie with apricot jam (figs are good too), and frutti di mare... color me as green as peteralway's new ukelele... yummmmm...

That's weird. Mom and Dad always took us just about everywhere, so by the time I was y.d.'s age I *enjoyed* going to fancy restaurants... and seafood was always my favorite. *blinks* I can't remember the first time I had frutti di mare, that's how long it's been one of my favorites... of course, with that spelling it's served over linguine instead of dry ice :)

I do remember the first time I had calamari; it was in one of the restaurants out on the pier in Santa Cruz, way back in 1990...

Note to self. Steve likes stout. :)

[mdlbear]

Good beer of all sorts, though I lean heavily toward the dark side.

The kids are weird -- they love seafood, especially sushi, crab, and lobster. But they don't really feel comfortable in fancy places, and generally prefer their fish in the form of fish-and-chips if they can't get it raw over rice.

There was a small fig with the cheese plate.

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

That dinner sounds just delightful :-)

Andrea