(Life has been busy so I'm catching up with September happenings. Life goes on, too, as our beloved Oom Hans passed on, we celebrated Sam's 25th birthday - as well as our wedding anniversary.)
September 11 has gotten a bad rap since 2001, but it will always be a day of celebration for Tom and me and Richard and Nancy. 9/11/71 was Tom's and my wedding day in Redondo Beach and R&N's wedding day in Manning Park, Montecito. Since meeting in Isla Vista after returning from our respective honeymoons in San Francisco, we've gotten together for anniversary celebrations whenever possible.
This year, after enjoying the champagne and cheese Richard & Nancy brought to our house, we had a fabulous dinner at Herzog Wine Cellars' restaurant, Tierra Sur. We enjoyed two wonderful bottles of 2002 Herzog Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley (it was so sweet of Masio to treat us to one of them!). We enjoyed appetizers of Beef Carpaccio with marinated baby artichokes, fried capers and balsamic syrup, and Chorizo lamb sausage, and black olive piadina, flat bread with watercress and cherry tomato salad with zahtar dressing. These were followed by our beautifully presented and very delicious Wood grilled rib-eye steak with Onion gratin with almond bread crumbs and Cabernet green peppercorn sauce; Roasted baby lamb chop with kibbeh, bulghur and lamb meat balls with mint tomato sauce; Pan seared ono with lemon roasted asparagus, fried red thumb fingerling potatoes and taramasalata. Dessert? Yup, since our food was truly Kosher, it was not as heavy as it might have been and we were able to save room for equally delicious and satisfying desserts and after-dinner drinks :-)
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