Today I have to give a shout out to Kathi and her daughter Sophie, our very good friends from Alex City, Alabama.  They came into the big city for a couple of appointments and met Richie right here at MetroFresh for dinner last night.  Sophie is Richie's goddaughter.  She is now all of 16, driving, looking beautiful and a long way from the little girl I first met 13 years ago when we played "Sophie Ball" throwing her back and forth in the lake.  Kathi and Richie have been friends since the Truman administration.  That's not actually true, but they have been friends since the days of Limelight at Disco Kroger.  When she and Richie get together - along with Carol, Betsy, Randi, and several others, all I hear about is the crazy days at Limelight and how there's NOTHING like that anymore.  I think we're all fortunate there's NOTHING like that anymore, since we're old now, and going to the Limelight at our age would constitute a fauz pas of epic proportions, not to mention detrimental for our health.  Anyway, Kathi gets her Anderpino news via the daily email, and she lobbied hard last night for an appropriate shout out.  It was great to see them, and feed them some delicious, healthy MetroFresh food before the headed back the Bamalama!
            We're catering another party tonight.  We have the shingle out on the door apparently since in the next few weeks we have several large parties offsite.  This means lots of scurrying in the kitchen today getting everything ready.  If you see a flash when you're ordering your soup, that'll be me.

            We have lots of great food today for lunch and dinner.  I made a delicious cold squash soup that's really light and healthy.  It does have some dairy, but it's just lo-fat yogurt and a little feta.  For those of you who don't know, Rockstar and I are from Western NY and tonight, he is featuring a famous WNY favorite - Beef on Weck!  This our version of a French dip and it is served with a creamy horseradish on a Pretzel Bun  - FYI the proper bun would be a kummelweck also called 'weck.  WE had Eli bake up Pretzel buns instead.  Just as good and whole lot less salt!  Come and see us.

Thursday, July 29 @ MetroFresh

Key: F=Fish, M=Meat, Vn=Vegan, Vg=Vegetarian, E=Egg, D=Dairy, GF=Gluten Free