Home Cookin' in Echo Park


Eileen invited me to her house for a home-cooked meal. I had been out of town for two weeks and we wanted to catch up. It was funny that she decided to whip up a batch of pasta alla putanesca, which means harlot's pasta, full of salty black olives in a chunky red sauce. But I suppose it was appropriate as we had lots of girl talk to do. The $7 bottle of Alba Liza from Silverlake Wine Shop helped loosen lips.

For dessert, we shared the bar of MarieBelle dark chocolate that I gave Eileen as a souvenir from Kiki de Montparnasse. Considering that Kiki de Montparnasse is a high-end lingerie shop, and the back of the candy bar's beautiful cover was printed with a suggestive saying from Bertolt Brecht ("Temptation to behave is terrible"), I think the chocolate was intended as an aphrodisiac for lovers.

Instead, it was a crunchy coupling with the vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries for giggly girlfriends.

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