An Old Family Recipe

For our wedding shower ten years ago, Aunt Joyce sent us a beautiful handmade gift.  She wrote a lovely note explaining the gift, a nostalgic collection of old family recipes culled over the years.  Awwww, I thought, how wonderful.  I opened the book, a collection of pages bound in an album, to savor the first family recipe.  Chicken and rice?  Aunt Carol's homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies?  What would it be?

It was a copy of the restaurant section of the Yellow Pages.

So, we followed Aunt Joyce's old family recipe this weekend, and we went out.

Friday, basic pork roast, mashed potatoes and baby carrots at the West Side IA.  Lovely with Jim Beam or Guinness. 

Saturday night, Mark and I wanted to go to a restaurant we had not been to before.  Heard good things about Parallax in Tremont.  It was fine.  Did not rise to the level of our favorites, Players or Three Birds.  The highlight of the evening, however was getting cocktails at the Velvet Tango Room. Love that place.  Worth every bit of the $15 per drink price tag.