Top Five Pastas

This is to honor all the delicious pasta I plan to devour this evening at the Old Spaghetti Factory!

Top Five Pastas

5.  Penne with Spicy Vodka Cream Sauce
4.  Pasta con Broccoli (the kind with just white sauce...like at Pasta House)
3.  Lasagna from Amighetti's (mmm...provel)
2.  Fetuccini al Carbonara (ala Rich and Charlie's but many other places have it this yummy)

And my number one favorite pasta...

1.  Seafood Pasta Suzanne at Charlie Gitto's (I have tried and tried to duplicate this...sigh...can't be done)

As I'm looking at this list I feel like I am missing some more of my favorites (you have to understand how much I love pasta).  I need to get my mom's stuffed shells and manicotti recipes...those are to die for too!  Maybe I can even get her to teach me how to make pasta from scratch...that's something I have yet to do.

Welp, until tomorrow...

Factory Weekend

Tonight...we hit up the Cheesecake Factory. 

I haven't eaten that much in a long time.  Ugh.  I think I'll be full straight through tomorrow.  We started with the fried calamari, which was pretty standard as far as calamari goes (read: delicious).  Next we moved on to share a Four Seasons pizza...ah-mazing.  It's basically four pizzas in one:  artichoke and roasted tomato, prosciutto, wild mushroom, and fresh mozzerella and tomato.  When you can't decide...it's the best of both, and then both again, worlds.  :)  Top it all off with a slice of white chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake (I'm gonna have to break out the sham-wow to mop up the drool puddle) and you have one heck of a dinner. 

Tomorrow...bring on the Old Spaghetti Factory.