30th Birthday Feast

For my birthday Tom got me three Italian boys!!!! What a gift! Well, okay, Frank offered to cook me a traditional Roman meal. Alessandro and Piero pitched in too, and it turned into a five course feast with Rigatoni all'amatriciana, spaghetti carbonara, a lovely tossed salad with baby lettuce, a plate of cheese called burratta, and the BEST EVER tiramisu from a very exclusive Roman bakery. We washed it all down with a lovely bottle of red wine and laughed our way through the night. It was a very memorable meal that I intened to share with you, in detail, after I get rid of this carb-induced coma I have fallen into.