We are celebrating two years of marriage with dinner at Piva Modern Italian this evening.
The past two years have been the best of my life, I’m married to a truly wonderful woman. Who tolerates me eating really, really well and then editing my rants about it.
Though nothing to rant about tonight.
My relationship with Piva, unlike my incredible relationship with Merilynn, started of quite rocky.
But over the last few visits Piva and I had become pretty tight. Not as close as Merilynn and I. But pretty good.
Tonight was no exception.
Drinks of course to celebrate.
My beautiful wife and her Viola. Empress Gin, Cointreau and 4 fruit juices. Very refreshing, it was an adult soft drink. Watch out, those could go down very quickly.
My Lavender Fields, essentially a Sour but with gin. Tart and silky with floral notes. Delicious.
Some focaccia bread.
Nice crumb structure going on. It was very fresh and had wonderful flavour. Almost as good as mine lol.
The better half decided on a Butternut squash/cauliflower soup.
I went with the Lobster Risotto.
I found the soup quite well balanced with a very smooth texture. Unfortunately Merilynn found it too much like baby food. The texture was very smooth and maybe a bit which. However I really enjoyed. I guess she shouldn’t have eaten so much baby food….
The Lobster Risotto was excellent as well. Lots of big chunks of Lobster and peas in a tarragon, lemon Chile oil sauce. Beautiful flavours. A bit looser than I’m used to with Risotto, I would have preferred a bit more Parm in there. That’s being really picky though. Nice dish.
No dessert tonight, I have a homemade Pan au Chocolate at home to enjoy.
An amazing meal with my amazing wife. A perfect evening. How shall we cap things off…?