Sunday is couple's golf for us . My bride and I tied our best friends thus we retained the trophy from last week. Off to our house for the usual Sunday feast. Started with Manhattans made with a smooth Canadian whiskey and a french vermouth with just a dash of northern New York amber maple syrup from our local Mennonite neighbors up north. Hors DE Orv's with our drinks consisted of a smoked pepperoni we hand carried back from northern NY made by our local Mennonite meat market. It's more like a super sod - to die for. Some very aged provolone cheese, sliced cooked polish sausage, roasted peppers in virgin olive oil over Ritz type cracker. A homemade Greek salad with lots of feta cheese and hot baked garlic cheese bread sticks. Choice of moscato or lambrusco for the main beverage. Entree was lemon marinated (24 hours) chicken that I seared this morning on the grill at 8 AM then finished in the oven by baking just until the pink was gone - oh so moist. This was served over a bed of linguine fini el dente smothered with lemon basil cream alfredo sauce. We paused there and had an aperitif of our first batch of homemade limoncello this year. We then moved on to desert - mini chocolate eclairs and mini bitter chocolate carmels with sea salt. Ended with a demitasse of espresso and a smigit of anisette. Man can my bride cook. On my way to the square to walk some of this off. It doesn't get any better than this.
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