42 years since that blind date in Ottawa!

Time flies but only gets more fun.

 

Being too busy here in Barrie and couldn't get over to Paris the obvious choice is Gio's for the best Italian (or any kind of) food there is to be served.

 

 

We started off the evening with a bottle of Il Bosco, Rosso Toscano, Azienda Casale, Italy 2008 which was one of John Remmo's (the owner who immediately knew us from a year ago) recommendations.   It is a 100% Sangiovese grape, very good wine & very smooth.

In front of my sweet partner is the Caprese of bocconcini cheese and tomato slices and sauce. And we shared that and the Manzo Filetto Carpaccio we had two years ago. The latter dish is paper thin cold marinated beef that, no kidding, actually melts in your mouth ... really hard to describe and almost as hard to get to your mouth ... but wow!

Here's the pensive blogger as we waited for the main course with a little of the restaurant in the background.

Then the main course (secondo piato) where Jo-Anne elected the Fettuccine Alfredo ... no conversation other than mmmm, yeah, mmmmm, wow.

I had a special of their Atlantic Char on a bed of pasta which as it reminded me of salmon was a great dish. Of course perfectly prepared and the seasoning on it and the pasta really blended well.

 

All of that was only the lead up to the real Italian meal that brought us together 42 years ago ... Zabayone (sp). This desert is what nations have fought and lost territory over. In about 20 minutes of work with a whole bunch of eggs you could try to imitate what is here ... trust us we have flushed a lot of eggs over this one ... and you won't.

The smile tells it all as we share this special dessert as we did in that summer of 1972 ... many more to come!